This post is a short HOWTO and describes how to get the Startech USB31000SPTB network adapter working on CentOS 6.5. USB31000SPTB uses the AX88179 chipset and is a USB3.0 to 10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet Controller.  This adapter works without any modifications on Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04 LTS. I am using kernel version 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64 in this post […]