On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:19 -0500, Pastor Doug Coats wrote: > I recently installed FC2 on a laptop and need a network connection on it. > When I had Win98 I utilized a USB DLink device. I am wondering how to > instruct Linux to use a USB device once it sees it. > > When I plug it in the following shows up in the "messages" log. > > kernel: USB 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3 > kernel: eth0: register usbnet at usb-000:00:07.2-1, DLink DUB-E100 USB > Ethernet > > Any help would be appreciated - even if you could just push me in the right > direction. I am pretty familiar with networking in Linux but have not > utilized USB devices before. > > Thanks for your help. To a relative layman in terms of USB ethernet devices, it seems from your log as if the device is detected and initialized already. Do you want a specific network interface (eth0, in this case) to automatically come up when you plug in the device? I'm sure can be configured via hotplug and/or the networking scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network- scripts...
