USB LAN adapters

[Egal]

Hi,

I have a settop-box, using linux in a very small case. The mainboard has no on-board network adapter and I have no possibility to use a conventional PCI adapter, because of the riser cards used. So I thought, I could use an USB network adapter instead (unfortunately NOT USB 2.0).

Looking at the kernel configuration, there seems to be some support for such devices, but I couldn't find good recommendations, success stories or something like that, searching the net. I thought of using a D-Link DSB-650TX (obviously supported by the "pegasus"-module), but before I buy one, I would like to know, how well it is supported by the kernel in reality? Can those devices really use the full 10Mbit/s or is it limited by the USB-overhead or something like that? (USB 1.1 seems to support 12Mbit/s)

Or could someone recommend devices, that they got to work under linux (2.6 kernels)?

Thanks a lot,
cya Egal

[Egal]

Really no-one with recommendations/ideas/suggestions?

[babudro]

I have used many Pegasus-based USB ethernet adapters with success, including DLink, SMC, and Belkin. The only thing I have had trouble with is using two of them in one machine.