StarTech USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet ethernet stopped working on ubuntu 13.10 after a recent system update

Question

The device uses ASIX AX88179 internally.

I pulled the latest driver from the link above and I still experience more than 50% packet loss for the device.

Answer 1

It appears that revision V1.9.0 has a regression which causes more than 50% packet loss for the device.

After trying out a few other versions, the only version that worked on my Ubuntu 13.10 (running on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon) was V1.6.0, which can be downloaded here. I have put the direct link because there seems to be no way to get to it other than playing with the URL.