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What Ethernet chip do they use?
I've got a Framework 16 and all components work on both Fedora and Debian without installing custom drivers, so I'm surprised it's still an issue for some laptops.
The model that I have uses the motorcomm yt6801 chip. There is apparently some work going on to upstream the driver by the OEM, but it largely stalled with the last comment being from a kernel maintainer 7 months ago
https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/11/23/33
I wonder why they didn't go with something more supported, like a Realtek chip. They're not the best (I'd prefer Intel or Aquantia), but they're cheap and widely supported. The Framework's Ethernet expansion card uses a RTL8156 which is supported practically everywhere.
They don't design all of their laptops, so it's not always up to them. They order off-the-shelf designs with their logo from Clevo or some other ODM and tweak the firmware.