HELP! ethernet issue when using clonezilla

[Hilbertransform]

Hi all,
I use clonezilla live to backup/restore the operating systems ( 5.19.0-0.deb11.2-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 5.19.11-1~bpo11+1 (2022-10-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux ) on my workstation and I was wondering why ethernet card raises error and cannot up when running clonezilla.

Have tried several different clonezilla versions, from 2.7.3-19 to 3.1.0-22, the latest version and they all have the same problem. Following attachments are screenshots of my test.

My NIC is gpy215, which was merged into kernel since v5.15-rc1 and DO worked well on my workstation ( 5.19.0-0.deb11.2-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 5.19.11-1~bpo11+1 (2022-10-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux ). So I assume clonezilla using higher than the 5.15 kernel should also support this NIC.

Here are references about this NIC:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1416068/how-to-enable-maxlinear-phy-gpy115-drivers
https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/blob/master/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig

Does anyone have any clues?

Thanks.

[nurupo]

It appears like Debian's Linux kernel doesn't support GPY215.

The kernel needs to be configured with CONFIG_MAXLINEAR_GPHY for it to support GPY215, which will build mxl-gpy.ko kernel module.

However, there is no mxl-gpy.ko in Debian. You can request the kernel module to be enabled on Debian's bug tracker (as a wishlist item). You can also build it yourself via DKMS, but that's a pain to do so on a live cd system as you'd need to do that every time, that's more suited for a persistent system.

Ubuntu's kernel has mxl-gpy.ko, so I would expect Ubuntu variant of Clonezilla to work for you.

[nurupo]

Ubuntu's kernel has mxl-gpy.ko, so I would expect Ubuntu variant of Clonezilla to work for you.

Well, to be pedantic, technically it's in a separate linux-modules-extra-$KERNELVERSION-generic package, it's not in the base Ubuntu kernel package, but Ubuntu variant of Clonezilla has that package installed so it should work.

[Hilbertransform]

Exactly, as noticing your recommendation, i tried 20220620-jammy, 20221103-kinetic, 20230426-lunar and 20230801-mantic. It's funny that only 20230426-lunar( kernel 6.2) works just as the search result shows in Ubuntu website. Meantime, 20221103-kinetic(kernel 5.19) ethernet card failed as first but finally works after DHCP detected. 20230801-mantic(kernel 6.3) also failed. I will post my test photos below. Just confused as no support in Debian website when searching, how come my workstation(debain11.0, kernel 5.19) can run well?

[Hilbertransform]

here is my test photos.