On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:46:39AM -0500, Jackman wrote:
> Good morning!
>
> I am trying to use a laptop (Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1) with Dell's K17A
> USB-C docking station. It appears that the docking station uses an RTL8153
> chip for Ethernet, and it seems to initialize just fine. Wicd doesn't seem

Hi Andrew,

it looks like your (USB) dongle needs to use the r8152 kernel driver,
which is included in the 4.9 kernel image available in ASCII. Are you
on ASCII, aren't you?

> to recognize it, however. Furthermore, I can't find a node in /dev that
> appears to align with this device. Therefore, I don't know how to configure
> the device in /etc/network/interfaces, and I don't know how to configure
> Wicd for it.

network devices have no associated device under /dev (at least in most
of the unix-like systems descending from either BSD or SysV). So you
won't see anything under /dev/.

What you might want to look at is instead:

cat /proc/net/dev

>
> As an additional tidbit, the device gets renamed upon initialization from
> eth0 to enx00000000 (string of numbers). I don't know if that's relevant,
> but it's the first time I've seen it.

Are you on ASCII or on Jessie?

HND

KatolaZ

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