Re: about usb3 <> ethernet adapters for raspberry pi 5

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 03:40:44AM +0100, void wrote:
>On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Paul Floyd wrote:
>
>>I have a few "Amazon Basics" dongles. The designs vary over time (I 
>>have 2 different models, the one that I'm using now dates from March 
>>2024). I've had no problems with them, but I'm not very demanding 
>>either - mostly used for ssh, git, FreeBSD updates and a very small 
>>amount of sendmail.
>
>Do you get linespeed throughput with these?
>thanks,

Just to followup on this, I purchased a ugreen dongle which shows up like this
in dmesg:

axge0 on uhub0
axge0: <ASIX AX88179B, class 0/0, rev 3.20/2.00, addr 2> on usbus0
miibus0: <MII bus> on axge0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 3 on miibus0
ukphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 
1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
ue0: <USB Ethernet> on axge0

I've not run throughput tests yet, but one thing I did notice
is that the (static ip configured) ue0 interface won't become usable
after booting, at least not immediately. I have to login via
serial console and 'ifconfig ue0 down && ifconfig ue0 up' as root
to make it work.

That i guess might not be down to the actual hardware, more like the order it
is probed and initialised, but I don't know how to work my way around that.

The system is running 16.0-CURRENT #0 n286096-490c53e9353f GENERIC-NODEBUG.
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