HOT! Usb Lan Sr9700 Driver
Floriana Grundy
I recently bought a usb ethernet adapter for my laptop.When I connect it to Windows 10, it treats the device as a flash drive.On this "flash drive" is an executable .exe file. Running it on Windows, everything works fine.However, on Linux (Manjaro in my case) it only sees the device as a flash drive. The internet connection not working.
CoreChips has a SR9700 network adapter chip, but the product id being 0x9702 instead of 0x9700 suggests this might be a different version of the chip. Or it might be the product ID used to indicate that the device is in "USB storage" mode.
This tells usb_modeswitch to send a sequence of two SCSI commands to the "USB storage device": the first command is "allow media removal", the second is "eject media". This is what some mode-switching USB devices use as an indication that the Windows driver installation kit is not needed any more, and the real functionality of the device can be revealed.
Once you've done that, try the inxi -nxxx command again. Has the class-ID: 0806 part changed to something else, perhaps to class-ID: 0206 (meaning an Ethernet network device)? Has any other information changed?
The next problem could be that the sr9700 driver module will not recognize the product ID 9702, as it expects only product ID 9700. When the device switches to the actual network interface mode, it might or might not change its ID. If the product ID changes to 9700, you'll only need the usb_modeswitch part.
If the chips with product ID 9702 will work identically to chips with product ID 9700, this might work. But if there are differences, the driver will most likely not work correctly. You might see errors in dmesg output.
Depending on what exactly happens to the USB identifiers of the device when the mode-switch is triggered, you might want to add some options here to allow usb_modeswitch to verify the switching is successfully achieved. See here for more information on configuration file parameters for usb_modeswitch.
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