Thank you for your reply.
Yes, I had read all of the links you posted and they do not specifically relate to using a USB Ethernet adapte, which is a dongle replicating an Ethernet port. In theory then, I should be able to
plug the dongle into the USB port, connect the RJ45 cable from the scanner and it should
work just like the factory installed Ethernet port connects and works.
Using a router is not the answer as I would still have to use the dongle to
plug the cable into the computer without a factory installed Ethernet port so nothing is gained.
I always have a second computer running when underway, as a back up, and if I used the original computer as a
Wifi and it goes down the back up won't have the raider. I had also read in what you sent that
Wifi is not the best answer for radar.
I also tried setting up a DCHP server using the dongle as the master. It assigned an IP address to the radar as a client and assigned an IP address to the computer as a client and then set up a "Network" as shown in the Opencpn manual and the Plugin didn't see that either. On top of that, when the
Network boxes were checked for both receive and send the computer locked up as soon as I gave it 0183 and would do the same when opening Opencpn after and I had to uninstall. I don't think that the
Network is for radar but for 0183.
As a lot of laptops these day don't have Ethernet
ports hopefully someone with one has gotten the dongle to work!