Pocket Ethernet Adapter Not Supported

[Vergil83]

Well, I give up. Apparently Billionton is a China-based producer of cheap computer peripherals. Their website won't even work properly so I can't contact support or go to their forum. Thanks for your help. I think I'll just buy another ethernet card.

here is their email support@billionton.com.tw

[Derada]

That is a OLD file for sure!
Are you sure the card isn't detected? Does this card have lights on it and if so are any of them lit up? Which version of debian did you install?

Try the following command
ifconfig eth0 up
What response do you get?
Use the following command ifconfig? Do you see a eth0 device?

If not try
modprobe rtl8150
and then try the command above again.

Or just get a different device!

ifconfig results in two blocks of data. One is eth0 and the other below it is lo.
I read that sometimes gcc error messages don't really ruin the compile. How do I tell if rtl8150.c compile correctly? Is it the same driver that shows up on lsmod?

[deanlinkous]

rtl8150 AFAIK should already be included you shouldnt need to get it from anywhere.

If eth0 is showing up then that should be your ethernet adapter - unless you have another nic in the machine too? lsmod shows the status of the modules that are loaded so if it shows up and if eth0 shows up then you should just need to set your network config and be good to go. I guess

[Derada]

How do I do that?

I've tried skipping ahead to steps 3 and 4: binding the card to an ip address and setting up a gateway, but it says "host name lookup failure". Also, "lo" is showing up as interface in place of "eth0".