does anyone know of a “truly” driverless adaptor to attach to USB device that does not have windows or linux and convert to Ethernet (LAN)
Do you mean for RouterOS? None of the supported USB Ethernet adapters need any drivers. Even Apple made USB Ethernet works fine.
Hi, Nope, not this time, its not even related to any MT products. Just thought that with such a gathering of networking gurus around, that someone might be able to point me in the direction.
Its actually to interface a “HP Back-up” type drive to a “ADSL Home modem/router”.
The Backup drive which I am trying to use as a NAS drive, has 1 port only, and thats USB. It works fine and has transfer rates of over 100Mb/S
The problem is with the ADSL modem/router supplied by my incumbent adsl supplier, it has a USB2 for the very purpose of “storage” accessible anywhere!, but that its transfer speed is a mind bl.owing 1.4Mb/s..
I understand that the problem with this router design is that the USB access is being controlled by the CPU of the router and that is why it is painfully slow.
I understand from other users of the same type router have connected NAS drives in the proper fashion and via one of the 4 LAN ports and have speeds topping out above 100Mb/s.
The problem is therefore, the decision to use the CPU as a controller for the USB port instead of passing the intense processing demands over to a dedicated USB controller chip.
I doubt very much that there is any “intelligence” in the HP backup drive and very little inside the router other than a tight Linux kernel.
My intention is to connect an Ethernet cable via one of the 4 ports to via a LAN/USB adaptor and then to the HP hard disk drive.
So it needs to be a truly “driver-less” adaptor.
You should ask on hp user/support forum. Or buy true nas server with disks rather than that.