alt Hacker NewsWhile that's true, you'd also expect USB network devices to be standardized and have builtin drivers under all the main operating systems.
While that's true, you'd also expect USB network devices to be standardized and have builtin drivers under all the main operating systems.
That would be desirable but it does not happen in practice.
All the USB network devices that I have ever used required specific drivers. Sometimes the drivers happened to be already bundled with the Linux kernel or with Windows, but frequently they were not.