Bug#1086955: please enable Motorcomm YT6801 GBit NIC

[Werner Sembach <wse@tuxedocomputers.com>]

Hi,

Am 22.11.24 um 09:13 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> Hello Harry,
>
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 03:33:56PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Could you please enable support for
> >
> > 	Motorcomm YT6801 GBit NIC
> >
> > in the kernel configuration for amd64? Hardware is a Tuxedo
> > InfinityBook Pro Intel Gen9.
> >
> > By now I could just verify the Bookworm backports kernel,
> > but reading the changelog for Sid's 6.11.6 kernel the
> > Motorcomm support is still missing.
> I created a MR for that at
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1270. As I
> wrote there I'm a bit unsure this is the right driver as it doesn't
> mention "YT6801".
>
> Can you (or maybe Werner) confirm this to be the right thing? Or does
> this additionally need a modification to the motorcomm driver to
> support the laptop's phy?

I don't think upstream supports the yt6801 chip yet.

Latest submit seems to be this: 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241120105625.22508-1-Frank.Sae@motor-comm.com/

In the meantime you could use the dkms deb from TUXEDO_OS: 
https://deb.tuxedocomputers.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxedo-yt6801/ (source: 
https://gitlab.com/tuxedocomputers/development/packages/tuxedo-yt6801)

Kind regards,

Werner Sembach

> Best regards
> Uwe