Re: CU 186 testing: AX88179 USB LAN adapter broken

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hey Charles,

Well, that is a little bit unclear in the bug report. It is compiled as a module. I would say that that counts as enabled. You can check if it is being loaded using “lsmod”.

-Michael

> On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:27, Charles Brown <cab_77573(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay, I found it and it is currently set thusly in master "kernel/kernel.config.x86_64-ipfire:CONFIG_USB_NET_CDC_NCM=m".
> Does that already imply that it is enabled?
> 
> On 6/4/2024 7:20 AM, Charles Brown wrote:
>> Hi Michael, I would be happy to give that shot. I did a fresh pull of master into local git repo and have been grepping about looking for where to enable CONFIG_USB_NET_CDC_NCM. I am a bit of a novice here at this sort of thing. Could you point me where to do the enable thing for this config setting? -cab
>> 
>> On 6/3/2024 4:29 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>> Hello Charles,
>>> 
>>> No, that is something that we cannot do as we would reintroduce all security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in the last 17 kernel releases.
>>> 
>>> However, did you confirm that enabling CONFIG_USB_NET_CDC_NCM works? You mentioned this here:
>>> 
>>>    https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13692#c2
>>> 
>>> -Michael
>>> 
>>>> On 2 Jun 2024, at 20:04, Charles Brown <cab_77573(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> With the issue reported in Bug# 13692, would it be possible to revert the kernel to 6.6.15 in CU 186?
>>>>