So I recently installed VyOS on an a mini PC which only has one ethernet port so I connected this USB To Ethernet Adapter which has AX88179 (TP-Link UE306) but it did not work.
It said everywhere that the AX88179 was supported but it just didn’t work for me. It was being detected and showed the interface but the link was constantly down with no indicator lights on the dongle.
I tried compiling the latest driver from Asix.com which didn’t work either and then I noticed that Asix lists AX88719 and AX88719A separately. I had the USB3.0 version and not the USB3.2 version. I then compiled the driver and installed the module ax_usb_nic.ko and it finally started working!!
Please let me know if I need to add this elsewhere or something. Thanks a lot.