USB 3.0 Displaylink DL-3000 series: DL-3100 / DL-3500 / DL-3900

[luiset83]

Originally Posted by brycenesbitt

Free hardware goes a long way in the Linux community. If DisplayLink could seed some to the distribution vendors, who could in turn parcel them out to developers... that could be the right route to full Linux support.

I'd argue the USB3.0/DRM chips should be a 2nd priority, after getting all the legacy DisplayLink devices working smoothly (plug and play) on typical distributions like Ubuntu.

Pluggable has a seeding program that devs can apply to here:
http://plugable.com/projects/plugabl...amples-program

While I have not tried it yet w/ my old DL-195 device, another poster here mentioned Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 13.04 both support Plug&Play for these older devices. I did upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 13.04 Beta 2 a few days ago to be able to connect reliably to my university's wireless network, so I will update this post when I try it out myself.

[Lautr]

I bought the Lenovo USB 3.0 Port Replicator together with my carbon x1, quite disappointed that there is no linux support at all for your chipset

[Per Mors Jakobsen]

I was just wondering, is all this only for show?

Are nobody from displaylink screening these forums?
As far as i can see there has been no response what so ever from display link..

I find this sad..

[pythonholum]

If they are not interested in writting a linux based driver for it, We could try to get a community based open hardware solution out there? I mean if we look at something like the beaglebone black, That has a usb client port, ethernet, hdmi ( And even runs linux its self ) We could use some existing protochal ( X2Go, vnc or something like that ) and get it up and running probably and have the total hardware cost be $50, Just a thought

[bachi]

It seems really unbelieveable that this company is not able to provide Linux drivers for its products, in 2013! About every other brand has managed that. Today even on the ISS Windows is replaced with Linux and they still are not able to solve this or are too lazy and wait for whoever could do the job for them. Wake up! Spend some bucks and see how many Linux users will gladly buy your products!

[rese]

Dear all
reading from the posts, it looks like there is no hope to make a docking station USB 3.0 work with a laptop and Ubuntu (13.04)?

Is that really true or is there is hope that this would be solved and if yes on what timescale (best guess?)?

Thanks for any input here: I have bought two docking stations for my Dell XPS13 and it seems that I may have to return both of these to Dell...

[towlie420]

I've tried every Google article I could find to make this work. Nothing has so far.

When I plug my displaylink into the computer dmesg shows the following output.

[ 5421.703550] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 5426.636018] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[ 5426.769197] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=17e9, idProduct=4301
[ 5426.769201] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 5426.769204] usb 1-5: Product: StarTech USB32DPPRO
[ 5426.769207] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: DisplayLink
[ 5426.769209] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: YUAN412130131091460369
[ 5426.770572] parse_audio_format_rates_v2(): unable to retrieve number of sample rates (clock 10)
[ 5426.770832] cannot get ctl value: req = 0x83, wValue = 0x201, wIndex = 0x0, type = 4

Is there going to be a linux driver or support soon? I bought this expecting that it would work on Linux.