Ethernet adaptor chipset SR9700 not working

Technical Issues
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Hi, everyone.

I bought an ethernet/usb adaptor for a laptop. After connecting the ethernet cable to it, I don’t have a network connection at all, not even a ethernet device is created:

$ ls /sys/class/net
 lo   virbr0   wlp2s0

$ ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
3: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:34:86:c2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 10:63:c8:6e:bc:23 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

The vendor is CoreChips.net.

The short lsusb output is:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0fe6:9702 ICS Advent USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adaptor

When I first plugged it in, file manager opened the folder where “driver” packages sit, as well as some info…

I want to know if it’s possible to run (somehow) them in my Manjaro/Mabox system or how can I get it to work.

I list them here:

.r-xr-xr-x user group  50 B  Wed Dec 19 20:34:45 2018  AUTORUN.INF
.r-xr-xr-x user group 7.5 KB Wed Feb 20 21:55:54 2019  CoreChips.ico
.r-xr-xr-x user group  99 KB Fri Jan  4 01:17:54 2019  RD9700.sfx.exe
.r-xr-xr-x user group  41 KB Sun Sep 13 22:11:44 2015  SR9700 Mac OS 10.10 Driver.pkg
dr-xr-xr-x user group 2.0 KB Fri Mar 15 00:47:52 2019  SR9700 Mac OS 10.6~10.9 Driver.pkg

The SR9700 Mac OS 10.6~10.9 Driver.pkg folder contains only a single folder, Contents, which in turns has:

.r-xr-xr-x user group 4.0 KB Thu Dec 13 21:53:20 2012  ._PkgInfo
.r-xr-xr-x user group  35 KB Thu Dec 13 21:53:20 2012  Archive.bom
.r-xr-xr-x user group  49 KB Thu Dec 13 21:53:20 2012  Archive.pax.gz
.r-xr-xr-x user group 1.1 KB Thu Dec 13 21:53:20 2012  Info.plist
.r-xr-xr-x user group   8 B  Thu Dec 13 21:53:20 2012  PkgInfo
dr-xr-xr-x user group 2.0 KB Fri Mar 15 00:47:52 2019  Resources

It is my guess that since the vendor provided some drivers files for Win/Mac systems, maybe some of them somehow could I use with my Manjaro?

(Thanks in advance for reading thru this point so far ;D )

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Hi @lobaluna

It seems other people have the same issue as well…

Searching for ID 0fe6:9702 linux got me some results… but not much to go on with, except that maybe ndiswrapper may be the way to go…

I have never used it myself, so I cannot help any further… but… look at the third post in this link…

And good luck :wink:

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Thanks for your good wish!

I consulted here first, in case anybody had a clue.

I’m quite sure is a Manjaro related issue (or kernel related, better). So I will post it in Manjaro forum.

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