New ASUS NUC 14 Essentials doesn't see wired Ethernet NIC

    Quote from chewitt

    The devil is in the details of what specifically changed on a day-to-day basis. We tend to queue anything majorly distruptive for the start of the release cycle but in recent years even those have been quite smooth. For context, the family daily-driver RPi5 has been running dangerously unstable sounding "pre-alpha" K22 images for more than a year now without any drama. Hopefully K22 will start lurching towards release soon.

    Ok thanks! Everything seem to be working nice. Will I be able to enter the stable channel, and update to LE13 via the official update function when its available, even if using a nightly build?

    You will be able to update to the main LE13 release when it comes, although (as with the original poster) if the board needs Linux 6.14 to support the NIC and the release image is using Linux 6.12 (the current plan) that will cause problems. I'm going to start an internal discussion about moving the Generic image to a newer kernel, but it's a group decision, so not guaranteed.

    Great!

    Yeah, I think these ASUS NUCs could become quite popular. There are a lot of NUC-like clones out there, but ASUS has taken over the manufacturing of the official NUC lineup from Intel, and development of new models like the NUC 14. I chose it because it felt a bit more solid than the NUC-clones regarding quality and support (firmware, etc.).

    Anyway, thanks for your help and for your work on LE.

    I did build a LE12 with kernel 6.12 from master and added yesterday the r8169 driver from 6.13.11. This is a bit hacky but i hope it works. On my Z100 with 8125B NIC it works.

    to try download version 12.0.2-#250416 from https://sky42.libreelec.tv/release/12.0/G…ic/kernel-6.12/
    release post is here LE 12.0 added lvm2, luks (dm-crypt, veracrypt), mdraid, ext4 encryption

    I am fairly confident RedHat will backport 8125D support to 6.12 over time, because that is the kernel for the new RHEL 10 that will be released most likely this quarter of 2025. Then i can probably copy a less hacky driver from there 6.12 kernel source code.