title: Asix usb to network adapter doesn't work (kernel 2.6.32.17)
body: <p>I have got an Edimax USB to Ethernet Adapter which is based on famous ASIX AX88772B chip and I want to make it work with my board which is a ARM based board running an Embedded Linux with Kernel 2.6.32.17</p>
  
  <p>According to Asix documentation this chip is supposed to work in this kernel without problems but it's not working in my case. I have selected the necessary components in kernel as modules (asix, mii, usbnet) and after compiling kernel I have mii.ko, usbnet.ko and asix.ko files. So I copied them to the right place.
  After inserting the adapter into hardware I can see that lsusb has recognized a new ASIX USB device with its PID and VID. After this I ran : </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>root@dm368-evm:~# modprobe asix<br>
    usbcore: registered new interface driver asix</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and you can see that the modules have been loaded into memory without any errors or problems (apparently modprobe is managing dependencies automatically and I didn't need to insert mii.ko and usbnet.ko manually)</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>root@dm368-evm:~# lsmod<br>
    Module                  Size  Used by<br>
    asix                   11444  0<br>
    usbnet                 11657  1 asix<br>
    mii                     3392  2 asix,usbnet   </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But I don't see an ethernet interface after running below command</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ifconfig -a</p>
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  <p>I also don't see any messages in dmesg. I would have expected a message like "eth0 is registered" or something like that based on what I saw in Ubuntu when I plugged in the adapter. I also used this adapter with another ARM hardware which had kernel 3.50 and it worked fine so I have no idea why it's not working.</p>
  
  <p>Once I tried to build the necessary drivers statically into kernel but it didn't make a difference either. </p>
  
  <p>I really need to make this work because the board doesn't have an ethernet connection and I want one to use as debug interface and FTP file transfers. </p>