Something in the kernel used in CU 186 has broken the AX88179 USB LAN adapter. The AX88179 USB LAN adapter was / is working fine with CU 185. https://community.ipfire.org/t/cu-186-testing-ax88179-usb-lan-adapter-not-supported/11671/1
Tested with IPFire 2.29 (x86_64) - Core-Update 186 Development Build: master/03de90cc -- and it is still broken
I don't know if this is relevant but ... https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217204 mentions "CONFIG_USB_NET_CDC_NCM must be enabled"
From: https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/239 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6.5.13 is also OK. 6.6.21 fails. For completeness, 6.8.1 also fails. And the best bit is that there appear to be no direct changes to the AX88179 driver in 6.6, so it's looking to be a framework change with unintended consequences
There have been quite a few commits for ax88179_178a.c over the past 8 months. Something somewhere along the way, after whatever is in our 6.6.15, seems to have broken this part. Not sure if any of the recent commits have it fixed ... but it is not fixed in our 6.6.32 kernel ---------- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
Patch set has been created and merged into CU186 by Arne Fitzenreiter. https://lists.ipfire.org/hyperkitty/list/development@lists.ipfire.org/thread/JWEHKH4DMG4TZZA4NUJMCJHWQ5GRCZGU/
Bug fix has been tested out by various forum users and confirmed to fix issue https://community.ipfire.org/t/cu-186-testing-ax88179-usb-lan-adapter-not-supported/11671/22 https://community.ipfire.org/t/cu-186-testing-ax88179-usb-lan-adapter-not-supported/11671/23 https://community.ipfire.org/t/cu-186-testing-ax88179-usb-lan-adapter-not-supported/11671/24
Core Update 186 has been released https://www.ipfire.org/blog/ipfire-2-29-core-update-186-released