I found that the tg3 driver used in the m1 mini doesn't correctly declare all its firmware files. This leads to files not being included in the initrd which causes the interface bringup to fail.
This was fixed in:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=046f753da6143ee16452966915087ec8b0de3c70
I found that the tg3 driver used in the m1 mini doesn't correctly declare all its firmware files. This leads to files not being included in the initrd which causes the interface bringup to fail.
This was fixed in:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=046f753da6143ee16452966915087ec8b0de3c70