On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:33:54PM +0100, Frédéric Parrenin wrote:
> I have a Dell latitude 5285 laptop connected to a Dell DS1000 docking station
> through an usb-c cable.
> Both devices are supposed to support Mac Address "pass through", that is, the
> internal laptop mac address is used instead of the mac address of the docking
> station.
> Unfortunately, this does not seem to work under linux.
> When I type "ip a", I get the mac adress of the docking station.
> And the network does not work.
> Is this supposed to work under linux?
> I saw a commit related to this issue here:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34ee32c9a5696247be405bb0c21f3d1fc6cb5729
> but it does not specifically mention the Dell DS1000.
What type of USB driver is binding to this device? If you run:
lsusb -t
from a command line, what is the output?
And what kernel version are you using?
thanks,
greg k-h
