PHY capabilities are currently read from the fiber status page, thus Linux won't advertise 10 / 100 Base-T operation modes, effectively limiting operation to 1000 Base-T. Statically set the PHYs capabilities, avoiding autodetection. The issue itself is properly fixed kernel upstream, however backporting efforts to OpenWrt master resulted in breaking the fiber operation for another target. This is currently only known to be necessary for the Ubiquiti UniFi AC series, so enabling it in the ath79 target should not break somewhere else. --- a/drivers/net/phy/at803x.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/at803x.c @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ static struct phy_driver at803x_driver[] .get_wol = at803x_get_wol, .suspend = at803x_suspend, .resume = at803x_resume, - /* PHY_GBIT_FEATURES */ + .features = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES, .read_status = at803x_read_status, .aneg_done = at803x_aneg_done, .ack_interrupt = &at803x_ack_interrupt,