Driver for AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet
I have the following Ethernet to USB-C adapter:
$ lsusb | grep Ethernet
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet
Currently it is not working when plugged into the USB-C port, in dmesg I get:
[23552.344134] ax88179_178a 2-1:2.1 eth1: Failed to read reg index 0x0000: -32
(However, it works on a different machine, but the error is still shown, and the transfer rate seems limited.)
I am wondering if I have the correct driver installed. I’ve seen that axge seems to be the correct driver, but it does not show up in lsmod.
What is the correct driver to use for AX88179, how to check if it is installed, and how to install it otherwise?
I am currently using Linux Mint 20.3.
The axge driver you linked is for the FreeBSD version of Ubuntu.
The corresponding Linux driver seems to be named ax88179_178a. It should be included in the standard kernels of all modern distributions, as the copyright marking in the source code is from year 2013. Here it is in kernel version 4.9.318, the oldest kernel currently in long-term support by the kernel developers.