Re: help installing usb network adapter zt6688

Hello,

baaaaaary@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :
On Oct 31, 4:23 am, Janaka <jana...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know that 2.6.22 kernel supports this device.

The dm9601 driver was added in kernel 2.6.21. But later kernel versions fix some issues such as this one in 2.6.23 which seems rather serious :

dm9601: Fix receive MTU

dm9601 didn't take the ethernet header into account when calculating
RX MTU, causing packets bigger than 1486 to fail.

I think the easiest will be to upgrade to a later version of the
kernel that supports it. Although Debian is precious about updating
their kernel, you can do so using the "testing" branch of the debian
packages tree ("stable" only has 2.6.19).

Isn't it rather 2.6.18 ?

sorry for my ignorance but how can i get the testing version without
doing a complete reinstall?

etch-backports has a 2.6.22 kernel for the current Debian stable (4.0, I don't know what is "debian 4.1.1-21").
See <http://www.backports.org/>
.

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