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

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 01:34:35PM +0100, void wrote:
> 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.
> -- 

Might this be related to 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252165,
bearing the title " usb network and mii bus media status race condition" ?

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska