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Ethernet on the EVO

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Philipp

Hi guys,
I was trying to connect my new EVO via Ethernet due to some issues with WiFi being flaky (on my side, not the EVO...) but could not get a connection.

lskpci -k gives me:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Motorcomm Microelectronics. YT6801 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Tongfang Hongkong Limited YT6801 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    Kernel modules: yt6801

but

lsmod | grep yt6801

comes back empty, meaning that the module is likely not loaded. I found the driver at the motorcomm website (version 1.0.29), but am somewhat hesitant to install as this machine is my main productive computer at the moment.

Any pointers from people more knowledgeable or adventurous?

Thanks!

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Alejandro López Slimbook
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Hi Philipp,

You can find the slimbook-yt6801-dkms package in our launchpad repository:

https://launchpad.net/~slimbook/+archive/ubuntu/slimbook

After a few days it will be available for other distributions.

Happy 2025!

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Philipp
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Hi Alejandro,

thanks for the quick reply.  I forgot to mention that I have SlimbookOS...

Anyway, 

sudo apt-get install slimbook-yt6801-dkms 

told me that I have the latest version already. I then tried 

modprobe yt6801

which failed:

modprobe: FATAL: Module yt6081 not found in directory /lib/modules/6.11.0-1010-oem
find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name yt*

shows that there is a compressed module in 

/lib/modules/6.11.0-1010-oem/updates/dkms/yt6801.ko.zst

but I can't seem to load it (and how-tos on that looked a little scary).

Any help appreciated, this year or next!

Happy 2025!

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Antonio Jesús Clicktic
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Hola, con un live usb te funciona la conexión por ethernet ??

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Alejandro López Slimbook
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Hola, en el live no funciona, hasta que instalas la ISO con cnexión a internet, y entonces, al reconocer el modelo, se baja el driver en modo DKMS para que continue funcionando en futuras actualizaciones del kernel.

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Alejandro López Slimbook
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Hi Philipp
You maybe installed something that made it wrong.
Did you install SlimbookOS connected to wifi?

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Leunam
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Good morning and happy new year.
I had the same problem after following this guide and updating the kernel due to Bluetooth (https://slimbook.com/en/forum/community-forum-1/question/bluetooth-no-funciona-en-slimbook-evo-slimbook-os-9328).

I also couldn't load the module into the kernel with the same error as you

In my case i  solved it

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

The oem kernel headers 6.11.0-1011-oem have been downloaded and build dkms yt6081 everything works after reboot.
I hope it works for you too



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Philipp
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Hi guys,

I got the EVO with SlimbookOS preinstalled and then followed the thread in the forum to get bluetooth to work.

Following Leunam's suggestion worked like a charm! At one point I will understand why

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

held back the packages when I tried this morning, but that's neither here nor there.

Thanks a lot!

(send using my now working wired network connection)

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