USB to Ethernet with Hardware Timestamping and PPS outoput

A USB 3.2 Gen1 to Gigabit Ethernet dongle based on the AX88179B.

• The AX88179B supports Precision Time Protocol (PTP) (IEEE 1588v2 and 802.1AS)
• This hardware implementation features a female SMA to break out the 1PPS signal from the AX88179B.

Installation

Step 1: First you need to compile the Time Stick module (driver). Either clone the entire repo and take it from there (skip to step 2) so use the following commands:

cd
https://github.com/Time-Appliances-Project/TimeStick.git
cd TimeStick
make
sudo make install

Step 2: You need to remove cdc_ncm before installing the AX88179A module. Please follow the steps below to remove cdc_ncm and install the AX88179A module.

sudo rmmod cdc_mbim
sudo rmmod cdc_ncm
sudo rmmod ax88179_178a

Step 3: Insert the new module

sudo modprobe ax_usb_nic