Comment 61 for bug 1269883

Hi Cinder,

Thanks for your interest. Monitoring this thread and the aforementioned links as well, I can confirm to you it seems indeed there is unfortunately nobody working on a fix at the moment.

On my side, since I couldn't invest more time in it, I switched to a RTL8153 which didn't suffer on these reliability problem but suffers a bitrate problem (we are more likely to the 125 Mbps rather than to the advertised 1 Gbps, but that's another story).

I'm maintaining the DKMS linux out-of-tree package for ax88179_178a on Arch Linux and I have realized I don't have issues any more printed on dmesg, but the dongle is still not stable, I'm unable to perform a scp or rsync properly without the application layer from lagging then unexpectedly crashing.

So my idea was maybe to rebase the kernel code to the latest one provided by ASIX and find out the issue.

If you need additional pieces of information since I own dongle devices, I would be glad to help! :)

NB: Please not I don't have a custom kernel any more, only default Arch Linux one 4.18.3 at the moment).