In another article I've shown how, this USB Ethernet adapter, appears on my desktop system.

Today I'm going to show you how it works on the Raspberry Pi and on the Beaglebone board.

It's really fantastic, it works fine without any problem.

 

Take a look a the following outputs:

Beaglebone running Angstrom Linux

Once the adapter has been plugged in the usb port it is immediately visible using the lsusb command:

root@beaglebone:/root/# lsusb 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0b95:772a ASIX Electronics Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

 

using the dmesg tool we can get some other info

[    9.903625] asix 1-1:1.0: eth1: register 'asix' at usb-musb-hdrc.1-1, ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet, 00:0e:c6:f0:1e:d4
[    9.903839] usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
[   10.724822] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[  205.999542] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[  206.013153] asix 1-1:1.0: eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
[  216.591796] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[  835.565032] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[  911.676696] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[  912.121734] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[  912.123260] asix 1-1:1.0: eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
[  922.351837] eth1: no IPv6 routers present

 

last i configured the device with my favorite IP

root@beaglebone:/root# ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.7 netmask 255.255.248.0

 

issueing the ifconfig command we can see that the board is "running"

root@beaglebone:/root/ # ifconfig 
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:C6:F0:1E:D4  
          inet addr:192.168.2.7  Bcast:192.168.7.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20e:c6ff:fef0:1ed4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4927 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:463885 (453.0 KiB)  TX bytes:8901118 (8.4 MiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:504 (504.0 B)  TX bytes:504 (504.0 B)

Raspberry Pi running raspbian

Once the adapter has been plugged in the usb port it is immediately visible using the lsusb command:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ lsusb 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b95:772a ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88772A Fast Ethernet

using the dmesg tool we can get some other info

[    3.172166] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    3.295602] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0b95, idProduct=772a
[    3.304708] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.314116] usb 1-1.2: Product: AX88x72A
[    3.320305] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ASIX Elec. Corp.
[    3.327380] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 000002

last the output of the ifconfig command, the interface is eth1..

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ifconfig 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:f5:2a:a2  
          inet addr:192.168.2.7  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:25877 (25.2 KiB)  TX bytes:11706 (11.4 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0e:c6:f0:1e:d4  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

The adapter works fine with both the boards.

That's all