Re: WiiU ethernet adapter

Hello,

On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 10:01:52 +0100
Harold Gutch <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I don't have any USB to ethernet adapter, so I rather ask before buying something that won't work. 
> > Does only the offical adapter work or will anything that works under NetBSD work?  
> 
> Anything that works under NetBSD will work.
> 
> 
> > If so, any recommendation?  
> 
> I'm a bit hesitant to make a "blind" suggestion - there are *far* more
> marketing names than actual chipsets out there and chances are that a
> particular marketing name anybody drops here won't be available
> anymore (or might have been updated with a newer revision that
> contains a different chipset).
> 
> A while ago I stumbled over a ethernet-USB *cable* (basically a USB
> ethernet plus *hardwired* ethernet cable) by Goobay.  That should be
> fairly recognizable - it has an AX88179A chipset and is supported by
> axen(4) in current/netbsd-11 (it's only in netbsd-10 since close to a
> year ago, so not in NetBSD 10.1 but will be in NetBSD 10.2).

I bought a cheap, semi-random USB3-GigE thing for my rpi500, a 'tp-link
UE306', which just so happened to be the same thing inside:

[     1.616382] axen0 at uhub2 port 1
[     1.616382] axen0: ASIX (0x0b95) AX88179B (0x1790), rev 3.20/2.00, addr 1
[     2.076387] axen0: AX88179A

have fun
Michael