ax88179_178a.ko was not found during update

[Orbit4l]

Creating a bug report/issue

Required Information

• DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version
  G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=6
  G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=31
  G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=2
  G_GITBRANCH='master'
  G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
• Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN
  buster 1
• Kernel version | uname -a
  Linux 5.10.103+, Tue Mar 8 12:19:18 GMT 2022 armv6l GNU/Linux
• SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)
  RPi B (armv6l)
• Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)
  5V 2A
• SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)
  Kingston Canvas Sel. Plus

Additional Information (if applicable)

• Software title | (EG: Nextcloud) : running apt-get upgrade
• Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? : update
• Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? : don't know

• Bug report ID | echo $G_HW_UUID

Steps to reproduce

1. apt-get update
2. apt-get upgrade

Expected behaviour

• ax88179 driver should be updated for kernel 5.10.103-v7+

Actual behaviour

• ax88179_178a.ko was not found during update

Extra details

run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 5.10.103+ /boot/kernel.img
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dietpi-USBridgeSig 5.10.103+ /boot/kernel.img
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 5.10.103-v7+ /boot/kernel7.img
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dietpi-USBridgeSig 5.10.103-v7+ /boot/kernel7.img
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dietpi-USBridgeSig:
[ INFO ] Updating asix ax88179 driver for kernel 5.10.103-v7+, as provided by allo.com:
[ INFO ] - https://github.com/allocom/USBridgeSig/tree/master/ethernet
[ INFO ] Downloading driver...
--2023-05-06 13:14:53-- http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/USBridgeSig/rpi-usbs-5.10.103-v7+/ax88179_178a.ko
Connecting to 3.230.113.73:9011... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2023-05-06 13:14:53 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[MichaIng]

Sadly a known issue, since Allo does not provide those Ethernet drivers for current RPi kernel versions anymore: http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/USBridgeSig/

Are you using the Allo USBridge Sig? Otherwise you can ignore it anyway and just remove the attempt to download this driver:

rm /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dietpi-USBridgeSig

If you are using the USBridge Sig, I suggest to contact Allo support and ask them to provide recent Ethernet driver builds for it, especially for the latest stable raspberrypi-kernel package versions on Buster and Bullseye. Without it, audio quality is highly disturbed by the Ethernet chip, very bad for such a non-cheap baseboard. At least this was the original reason why Allo provided these updated drivers.

But probably things have changed last summer with a set of commits upstream 🤔: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
If anyone can test whether distorted audio is still an issue with current RPi kernel when using Ethernet, that would be great.

Just asked here: raspberrypi/linux#2942 (comment)