@Wayne-Workman said:
I then booted into FOS using the on board NIC to see how the adapter is recognized. FOS sees it fine.
Just to make sure the kernel is really happy with it, can you please try DHCP or setting a static IP (ifconfig ethX 10.x.y.z netmask 255.255.x.y up) on that USB NIC when you have FOS up and send pings?
Guess I struck out on this one.
Sounds a bit like it.
At first I thought Tom is right about the NIC chip behind USB being a different story. But reading up on good old John Willis again I think USB should not play a major roll:
because the USB NIC is connected through a USB host controller, that USB host controller must also have a BIOS device driver and the USB host controller must be started before the USB NIC can be started
USB host controllers are internal and fixed, they do not change, they are built into the notebook, so only one device driver needs to be included in the BIOS for the USB host controller built into the notebook
Would be great to test all those machines with one or two different USB NICs. Not sure which one to recommend?! Do you have other adapters?