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

Van: void <[email protected]>
Datum: dinsdag, 2 juni 2026 14:34
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: 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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It really helps to share your /etc/rc.conf file.

As you have a serial connection you probably also have the output of booting which might indicate why things behave like they do.
Please copy-paste the output of the boot process in an email.

Regards,
Ronald.