I recently bought a USB to LAN RJ45 Ethernet Network Adapter off ebay.
While it was working fine under Win7 (I had to install the drivers from the small CD), I could not get it to work under Debian Squeeze.
I had to compile the drivers.
On the CD, there were a few folders:
– DM9601
– RD9700
I chose RD9700, this is what worked on Win7.
DM9601 would have worked as well, just follow the same instructions…
Now, copy the contents of the RD9700/Linux to a folder.
What you will need to compile:
Open a shell and get the proper headers for your kernel version
Type: (or copy and paste)
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
if you type uname -r it is useful to get your kernel version
You probably have the next package installed, it is necessary to compile stuff on your linux box
apt-get build-essential
You can install those with synaptic package manager.
Now go to the folder where you copied the files and type:
make
This is where I ran into problems…
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686′
CC [M] /usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.o
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c: In function âqf9700_bindâ:
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:380: error: âstruct net_deviceâ has no member named âdo_ioctlâ
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:381: error: âstruct net_deviceâ has no member named âset_multicast_listâ
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c: In function âqf9700_rx_fixupâ:
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:443: error: âstruct usbnetâ has no member named âstatsâ
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:444: error: âstruct usbnetâ has no member named âstatsâ
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:445: error: âstruct usbnetâ has no member named âstatsâ
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:446: error: âstruct usbnetâ has no member named âstatsâ
/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.c:447: error: âstruct usbnetâ has no member named âstatsâ
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/usblan/rd9700/qf9700.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/usblan/rd9700] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686′
make: *** [all] Error 2
No matter what I did, I could not get the driver to compile…
After a while, I found these:
http://mquin.livejournal.com/178482.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30273196
I downloaded QF9700-source.zip from
and extracted the contents into the same folder.
I ran make clean and then make
No errors.
All you need to do now, is to copy the .ko file to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/usb
then run depmod to register the module,
modprobe usbnet and
insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/usb/qf9700.ko
and voilà the driver should be installed.
You can verify that you have a new network interface with
ifconfig
I got a new eth1 🙂
You then have to configure it the usual way:
nano -w /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
For dhcp. You might have a different eth device, replace eth1 with the proper one such as eth0
Restart networks:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
or service networking restart
or it is just as easy to reboot
I might have forgotten a few steps, i am writing this off the top of my head. Hope it helped someone!
Computer Stuff 