Hello all,
I have been a light arch user for years and this is my first move into alarm. I have arch up an running just fine on my Samsung ARM Chromebook but I require a USB ethernet adapter. I got a USB 3 adapter based on the AX88179 chipset. I figured it would be kinda nice to use USB 3 because the Exynos 5 is the only ARM chipset I know of with USB 3. I also kinda have this crazy idea of using a Samsung Chromebook with a broken screen as a home server but need full GigE for that, not some crippled USB 2 adapter. The AX88179 chipset support was added to kernel 3.9 and works just plug and play on my x86 arch box. Of course till now I did not know that alarm was not using the latest kernel (it seems to be using 3.4 from the Chromium OS project) and thus the AX88179 does not work. There seems to be some intrest in back porting the 3.9 driver to 3.4 for ChromeOS here https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.or ... 1Ee4sM1ZGc but there has been no movement in months. So here is my question, how would I go about getting the AX88179 running on alarm? Is there an alarm 3.9 kernel? How would I compile the driver from source? Thanks for any help you can provide, I am still new to this!