It turns out that I actually have one of these! (The Amazon Basics USB/Ethernet dongle uses the same chipset).
And I can get it to work on my Xtrend et8000 by installing the r8152 driver.
This isn't an option you'll find in the menus.
I'll add a bit more once I find out what you do need to install.
EDIT: Hmmm...a look at the Viper 4K distro files doesn't find any network driver packages at all! So it's possible that nothing would work?
This is what Ubuntu sees:
Code:
Jul 13 15:48:59 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5101.052729] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 5
Jul 13 15:49:02 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.019884] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
Jul 13 15:49:02 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.040867] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8153, bcdDevice=30.00
Jul 13 15:49:02 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.040880] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=6
Jul 13 15:49:02 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.040885] usb 4-1: Product: USB 10/100/1000 LAN
Jul 13 15:49:02 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.040890] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
Jul 13 15:49:02 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.040894] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 000001
Jul 13 15:49:03 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.619300] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
Jul 13 15:49:03 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.623465] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
Jul 13 15:49:03 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.624513] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8153_ecm
Jul 13 15:49:03 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.748114] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
Jul 13 15:49:03 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.796016] r8152 4-1:1.0: load rtl8153a-4 v2 02/07/20 successfully
Jul 13 15:49:03 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5104.829704] r8152 4-1:1.0 eth0: v1.11.11
Jul 13 15:49:04 gmllaptop kernel: [ 5105.954911] r8152 4-1:1.0 enxa0cec855fae6: renamed from eth0
This is what the Xtrend sees:
Code:
[ 864.584000] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-brcm
[ 864.730000] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
[ 864.837000] usb 3-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-brcm
[ 865.013000] r8152 3-1:1.0 eth1: v1.08.8
[ 1203.037000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 1203.066000] r8152 3-1:1.0 eth1: carrier on
[ 1203.066000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
Code:
[et8000]: ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr A0:CE:C8:55:FA:E6
inet addr:192.168.1.60 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a2ce:c8ff:fe55:fae6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:54550 (53.2 KiB) TX bytes:12304 (12.0 KiB)
[et8000]: ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 32
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00007fff (32767)
drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err tx_queued intr tx_done rx_status pktdata hw wol
Link detected: yes