On 13 Oct 2016, Ilya Kaliman wrote: > I have a "Plugable USB 3.0 ethernet adapter" with ASIX AX88179 > chipset. The device is successfully recognized by axen(4) driver but > behaves strangely. When I plug in the ethernet cable the ifconfig > axen0 status says active and the leds start blinking. But after a > second or two both leds turn off and status says: no carrier. > Re-plugging the cable have no effect. Re-plugging the adapter itself > brings it up again for a second or two. > > The device itself seems to be fine as it works in other OSes without > problems. I suspect it has to do with OpenBSD driver.
I'm afraid that I can't offer any useful help but I can at least confirm the problem: I also have one of these devices (actually, maybe a couple) and see exactly the same issue with OpenBSD, at least with 5.9, I didn't try since with 6.0. At the time I chatted to a competent-seeming vendor guy and apparently they've seen the same problem at their end with OpenBSD and have no idea what the issue is. So, at least I can say: you're correct, it's probably indeed not just that you have a bad adapter. I don't know if any developers might like to have one of these mailed to them. -- Mark
