Any hope to get r8152.ko compiled and available as an option ?

[thaneb]

Hi there, Sir Gnuton 🫡😁🙏🏻
Is there any chance we could have a compiled r8152.ko driver along your builds?
I'm using the TUF-AX3000, and thanks to your work, it's far from obsolete, really appreciate your commitment.
I was hoping to improve transfers rate to and from my NAS (2nd hand hp elitedesk 800 G4 with a usb-c 2.5Gbe adapter) with a usb-a 2.5Gbe adapter plugged inthe USB 3 port of the tuf-AX3000... got it handled by the driver cdc_ncm exactly as described here:
https://wu.renjie.im/blog/network/ax88u-nbase-t/
Ready to be used as wanport or claiming to be lan port after unloading cdc_ncm driver.. but it seems the rtl8152.ko is still missing, and it's far from easy to follow instructions gave here or there.
Same here
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/need-help-to-compile-realtek-r8152-driver-for-rt-ax88u.89035/

It would be much more easier and comfortable if you could include this driver in your build process 🥹

[gnuton]

HEy @thaneb I do not have any time to play with this,
but you can leverage the cloud and done some changes and let github build it for you.

[thaneb]

ok, so, I'm a total noob sorry, i asked support from the chatgpt (sometimes i am not sure it really helps..) Here's what i did:

I forked your repo
in WLS 2, i pulled my fork

# release/src-rt/router/rtl8152/
added rtl8152 source folder in release/src-rt/router/

# in the rtl8152 folder, as i read "replace strscpy function since old kernel 4.x doesn't support this function."
sed -i -e 's/strscpy/strncpy/g' r8152.c

# to include rtl8152 in the building process
echo "obj-m += rtl8152/" >> release/src-rt/router/Makefile

echo "Adding rtl8152 source for GitHub workflow building" > rtl8152_integration.md

git add .
git commit -m "Add rtl8152 module and update Makefile"
git push origin master

then i went to github action tab on the fork repo, 1 workflow has run, but with 14 errors:

This request has been automatically failed because it uses a deprecated version of actions/upload-artifact: v2. Learn more: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-02-13-deprecation-notice-v1-and-v2-of-the-artifact-actions/

can you please confirm that these steps suggested by chatgpt are correct before I start to dig the errors ?

[gnuton]

the deprecated artifacts should not stop you to build your pipeline. you should just get warnings.
try to see if it works for a branch without modifications

[gnuton]

To enable such module you should rather uncomment the correct lines
see
47eb98a

you have to find where the linux configuration is for your router (see target.mak file)

[thaneb]

ok, so i deleted my first fork repo, fork yours again, changing the 3

release/src-rt-5.02axhnd.675x/kernel/linux-4.1/config_base.6a.47622
release/src-rt-5.02axhnd.675x/kernel/linux-4.1/config_base.6a.63178
release/src-rt-5.02axhnd.675x/kernel/linux-4.1/config_base.6a.6750

# CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 is not set
to
CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m

autobuild failed.

delete the repo, fork again, changing only the title to "GNUton's builds with rtl8152 as kernel module"
autobuild failed.

always same 14 errors :
Error: This request has been automatically failed because it uses a deprecated version of actions/upload-artifact: v2. Learn more: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-02-13-deprecation-notice-v1-and-v2-of-the-artifact-actions/

[thaneb]

Ok, line 164 of github-actions.yml
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
Changed to
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
And it seems to work

[thaneb]

So, many tries, now whatever the try i am doing i got
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/__w/_temp/_runner_file_commands/set_output_4cbf00a2-c300-4a22-881e-b4eb2bb585db'
Boring because it seems to happens after everything well compiled!