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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:58:53 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        usb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 255251] The ue0 device has an unstable network connection
Message-ID:  <bug-255251-19105-TKVG9qadof@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
In-Reply-To: <bug-255251-19105@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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--- Comment #5 from Michael Reim <kraileth@elderlinux.org> ---
I have experienced this problem, too, on a Dell XPS laptop (manufactured la=
te
2019) which has no ethernet socket and thus forces me to use a USB2LAN adap=
ter.
I've tried out two: The Dell one that came with the laptop and an Anker one
that I've been using without problems e.g. when playing with my Pinebook and
FreeBSD. Both are directly (no HUB or such) attached with traditional USB p=
lugs
(not USB-C). I've uploaded dmesgs for system starts with either adapter
attached.

I've observed that networking generally does work. After installing 13.0, I=
 had
trouble running freebsd-update. It started to download files but then the
system would lose connection (state for ue0 changes from active to no carri=
er.
Removing the network plug and putting it back didn't help but pulling out t=
he
USB connector and reattaching it did. However the same thing happened if I
tried to run freebsd-update again.

Updating briefly worked with the other (Anker) adapter, so I continued buil=
ding
my system. I was able to zfs send over 100GB to the laptop without the netw=
ork
having any issue, install a lot of packages for desktop use and so on. But =
when
I tried to use Ansible to provision another machine from the XPS, network
connection would immediately break. So I decided to clone the FreeBSD source
and update to 14-CURRENT to see if it happens there, too. Unfortunately clo=
ning
a git repo triggers the same problem.

Therefore I cloned it on another machine and scp'd it over. System is runni=
ng
14-CURRENT now and the situation has improved (cloning seems to work now) a=
nd
Ansible can do a few tasks instead of losing connection immediately, but
ultimately it still fails after a moment.

This is all a bit weird. I know that the Anker one works just fine with oth=
er
hardware and I briefly tested the Dell one on another laptop as well without
any problems. And since 14-CURRENT behavior definitely is different from 13=
.0,
some related work seems to have been done. A former co-worker used the mach=
ine
with Ubuntu installed and I don't know of any network issues.

I hope this helps with identifying what the actual problem is. I'd be happy=
 to
answer questions or provide additional info.

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