OT? hardware recommendation?

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 03:46, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Ken. Maybe some further details will help clarify. I'm looking
> at this adapter and trying to see if it might work:

Erm. You have been answered, correctly, once. You did not seem to understand.

Let me simplify the answer.

You cannot connect a USB device to an Ethernet port. No way, no how.
It is impossible. No combination of adaptors will do this.

Do you have some USB ports? Are all in use?
Then disconnect one.
Connect a USB hub to that now-free USB port.
Then re-connect the USB device that was on the port to the hub, and
your new disk drive to the hub.

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