N95 SOYO Mini PC with Motorcomm YT6801 Ethernet

    Hi,

    I've bought this mini pc and install the stable version 12.2

    Wifi is working but the ethernet doesn't, the ethernet adapter is a Motorcomm Microelectronics YT6801 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

    I'v also try to install the latest nightly of version 13, LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-nightly-20250830-e3ab8b4.img

    Ethernet still doesn't work.

    Any suggestion ?

    Thanks'

    There is currently no mainline Linux kernel driver for the YT8601 chipset. There was a submission of patches to add support back in February: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdev…2A&archive=both but there are quite a few comments to be addressed in the v2 series and there has been no v3 submission that I can see since then.

    I'd be happy to cherry-pick patches for something that looks like it's nearing a mergeable state (as we can drop them in the near future once merge happens) but the v2 submission looks to be some way off that.

    There are also some 'vendor' drivers that can be found on GitHub, but we have no interest in packaging out-of-tree drivers these days (the kernel patches would be preferrable).

    I'd suggest a USB Ethernet adapter for now, or use WiFi (assuming the box has that and it works), or returning the box for something that has an upstream supported NIC.

    Quote from chewitt

    There is currently no mainline Linux kernel driver for the YT8601 chipset. There was a submission of patches to add support back in February: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdev…2A&archive=both but there are quite a few comments to be addressed in the v2 series and there has been no v3 submission that I can see since then.

    I'd be happy to cherry-pick patches for something that looks like it's nearing a mergeable state (as we can drop them in the near future once merge happens) but the v2 submission looks to be some way off that.

    There are also some 'vendor' drivers that can be found on GitHub, but we have no interest in packaging out-of-tree drivers these days (the kernel patches would be preferrable).

    I'd suggest a USB Ethernet adapter for now, or use WiFi (assuming the box has that and it works), or returning the box for something that has an upstream supported NIC.

    chewitt,

    Thank's a lot for your detailed answer.
    Yes Wifi is working and I'm gone use it that way.
    it would have been a plus having the Ethernet working but that's ok for now.

    Thank's again very apreciate

    chewitt

    Thanks for sharing those info's, but I'm unable to get kodi working after updating or even after a fresh install of your image,
    maybe I did something wrong, here what I've done.

    • This is the image I've have downloaded, https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…-12.90.1.img.gz
    • After updating the system at first boot system got stuck, so I restarted manually and got a whatchdog on CPU1
    • After that I've tried to make a fresh install, was able to get to kodi interface and finish the libreElec configuration,
      but as soon that I try to configure the Wifi, just after inserting the password and pressing enter LibreElec just freeze,
      First time I've tried with the lan cable inserted, second time without it, but the result is always the same, Librelec freeze.

    Please ignore. It was late (for me) and I've gotten confused with another thread where the user is looking for drivers and I added a patch. There are no changes in the GBM image in my share, it was for testing something else.