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01-11-2008, 03:31 PM
I have what purports to be a generic USB 2.0 ethernet adapter, but how can I be sure that it is actually operating at USB 2.0 speeds?
Other threads suggested looking at the dates of the drivers, but isn't there a more definitive test? I get about 1005.9 kbits/s transfer speed.
Here is a snippet from the kernel log:
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb4000000, IRQ 5
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0d.0, PCI device 1033:0035
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: MCP startup complete
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb4001000, IRQ 3
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0d.1, PCI device 1033:0035
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xbda/0x8150) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbnet
Jan 6 02:52:57 (none) kernel: rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver v0.4.3 (2002/12/31)
Jan 6 02:52:57 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver rtl8150
Jan 6 02:52:57 (none) kernel: rtl8150.c: eth0: rtl8150 is detected
Other threads suggested looking at the dates of the drivers, but isn't there a more definitive test? I get about 1005.9 kbits/s transfer speed.
Here is a snippet from the kernel log:
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb4000000, IRQ 5
Jan 6 02:52:54 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0d.0, PCI device 1033:0035
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: MCP startup complete
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb4001000, IRQ 3
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0d.1, PCI device 1033:0035
Jan 6 02:52:55 (none) kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xbda/0x8150) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jan 6 02:52:56 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbnet
Jan 6 02:52:57 (none) kernel: rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver v0.4.3 (2002/12/31)
Jan 6 02:52:57 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver rtl8150
Jan 6 02:52:57 (none) kernel: rtl8150.c: eth0: rtl8150 is detected