usb ethernet recommendation?

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 16 00:47:58 UTC 2010


Hi,

> I'm setting up an old G4 laptop as a light-duty server. Are there
> recommended USB ethernet devices, or can I do well with any from the
> supported hardware list?

  I use a D-Link WUA-1340 on my amd64 box. Shows up in the dmesg as:

rum0: <Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on usbus7
rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528

  Works great on amd64/8.1, and I'd assume it would be the same on ppc.

later,

Peter.


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