Comment by qwezxcrty
3 months ago
In this specific case it makes a bit more sense, as when you need to install a RJ45 dongle is likely when you don't have a network connection.
3 months ago
In this specific case it makes a bit more sense, as when you need to install a RJ45 dongle is likely when you don't have a network connection.
While that's true, you'd also expect USB network devices to be standardized and have builtin drivers under all the main operating systems.
That would be desirable but it does not happen in practice.
All the USB network devices that I have ever used required specific drivers. Sometimes the drivers happened to be already bundled with the Linux kernel or with Windows, but frequently they were not.
Where do you buy such things? Every USB Ethernet card I've used in the last 10 years was either RNDIS or some version of USB-CDC. They've worked out of the box on both Linux, Windows and some even Android.
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