The USB Ethernet adapter (AX88179A chipset) is failing to load the correct driver.

Describe the bug

The USB Ethernet adapter (AX88179A chipset) is detected as a highspeed device, and the driver appears to be loaded; however, no network interface device is being created.

ImmortalWrt version

r33869-cf234f8de6d5

ImmortalWrt release

24.10.6

ImmortalWrt target/subtarget

x86/64

Device

Acer Aspire E1-471G

Image kind

Official downloaded image

Steps to reproduce

Using the official release image from the ImmortalWrt Firmware Selector, the USB network adapter is detected as a "SuperSpeed" device, but it is not bound to any driver, and no eth1 network interface is being created.

Using a firmware image built from the ImmortalWrt Firmware Selector with kmod-usb-net-cdc-ncm pre-installed, the USB network adapter is recognized using the cdc_ncm driver in half-duplex mode, resulting in frequent connection drops.

Actual behaviour

No response

Expected behaviour

The USB network adapter is working normally with the ax88179 driver.

Additional info

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX AX88179A

Diffconfig

Terms

• I am reporting an issue for ImmortalWrt, not an unsupported fork.