zwizard Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 I have an Anker USB C ethernet adapter I carry with my laptop. I just got the Plunder Bug in today and my Anker will not light up a link light when plugged it. I tried a TPlink USB adapter and it links up just fine. Are there certain LAN adapter that will not work with the Plunder Bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_pyrro Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, zwizard said: when plugged Plugged where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwizard Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 Laptop has Anker USB ethernet adapter attached. That adapter is then plugged into the Plunder Bug. Then the Plunder Bug is plugged into an ethernet switch. The switch gets a link light but the Anker USB adapter does not. I swap out the Anker adapter with a TPLink adapter and it gets a link light. I've used the Anker adapter for probably close to a year at lots of different sites on lots of different switches and never had a problem with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_pyrro Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 So, you're not connecting the Plunder Bug to any device via the USB-C interface, just one [in] and one [out] Ethernet cable to the RJ45 ports of the Plunder Bug? What are the exact model names of each adapter (TP-Link and Anker)? What chipsets are they using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwizard Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 Sorry, I have the Plunder Bug attached with USB C as well to the laptop. It's getting power. Anker Model A8313 - AXIS AX88179A TP-Link Model UE300 - Realtek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_pyrro Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 OK, I guess it's the V1 of the UE300 then since it uses the RTL8153 chipset (V2 is using the same as your Anker, i.e. AX88179A) Seems unlikely that the chipset should matter though. I haven't heard that there should be any hardware related issues when it comes to what the Plunder Bug might "accept", I haven't been running into any issues either. I'll see if I have something based on the same type of ASIX chipset, but most GBit adapters that I have are based on RTL8153. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwizard Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 I'll grab one based on RTL8153 and see if I have better luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_pyrro Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 You probably already have had better luck since you used the TP-Link adapter and that worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_pyrro Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Just for the record... I found an ASIX AX88179 based adapter and I could reproduce the failing scenario. I.e. when attaching the ASIX adapter to a computer and then to the "target" side of the Plunder Bug, I couldn't get an IP from the network to which the "WAN" side of the Plunder Bug was connected. However, when connecting the LAN cable directly to the ASIX adapter, I got an IP address straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwizard Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 Interesting. Thanks for making the effort to test. Does this mean this is a fault in the Plunder Bug or the ASIX? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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