Hi all. Has anyone been able to add an additional ethernet interface via USB (USB to ethernet converter)?

I have been looking around and didnt get any luck. If anyone has done this, please let me know what hardware you used.

My box is the TP-Link Wr703n

Thanks

If you read my post, you will notice I tried to turn a Seagate DockStar into a router. The post did not seem to generate any response. However, I was able to get some helps over the #openwrt-devel channel on IRC from Paul Fertser to make it to work. Then, I gave my Seagate DockStar away to a friend. Unfortunately, now it doesn't work and I don't know why. I have a copy of the /etc/config/network file as shown below. When I put it back to my Seagate DockStar unit, it also no longer works. Again, I have no idea why.

config interface 'loopback'
        option  ifname          'lo'
        option  proto           'static'
        option  ipaddr          '127.0.0.1'
        option  netmask         '255.0.0.0'

config interface 'lan'
        option  proto           'static'
        option  _orig_ifname    'eth1'
        option  _orig_bridge    'false'
        option  ifname          'eth1'
        option  ipaddr          '192.168.2.1'
        option  gateway         '192.168.2.1'
        option  netmask         '255.255.255.0'
        option  broadcast       '192.168.2.255'
        #option accept_ra       '0'

config globals 'globals'
        option  ula_prefix      'fd6d:4761:d790::/48'

config interface 'wan'
        option  _orig_ifname    '@wan'
        option  _orig_bridge    'false'
        option  proto           'dhcp'
        #option proto           'static'
        #option ipaddr          '192.168.1.250'
        option  ifname          'eth0'
        option  macaddr         '00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE'
        #option accept_ra       '0'

I hope you will be able to make use of it and update it here. BTW, you will need to install some additional software/kernel modules related to IPv4/6 to make it work.

(Last edited by mazilo on 15 Jul 2013, 12:26)

Hi Mazilo, thanks for the reply. Your post is not exactly what I want to achieve. I basically want to add an ethernet interface to my WR703n router via a USB (to ethernet convertor). I thought maybe someone had done this previously and could tell me which hardware is compatible with OpenWRT.....

Thanks