diff --git a/target/linux/octeon/config-5.4 b/target/linux/octeon/config-5.4
index c2012372ec..d2329a1f6a 100644
--- a/target/linux/octeon/config-5.4
+++ b/target/linux/octeon/config-5.4
@@ -213,9 +213,9 @@ CONFIG_NO_GENERIC_PCI_IOPORT_MAP=y
 CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16
 CONFIG_NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_64=y
 CONFIG_NVMEM=y
-CONFIG_OCTEON_ETHERNET=y
+CONFIG_OCTEON_ETHERNET=n
 CONFIG_OCTEON_ILM=y
-CONFIG_OCTEON_MGMT_ETHERNET=y
+CONFIG_OCTEON_MGMT_ETHERNET=n
 CONFIG_OCTEON_USB=y
 CONFIG_OCTEON_WDT=y
 CONFIG_OF=y
diff --git a/target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/702-honor_xaui_node_device_tree_status.patch b/target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/702-honor_xaui_node_device_tree_status.patch
index 54f5426fb6..f1bc19528b 100644
--- a/target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/702-honor_xaui_node_device_tree_status.patch
+++ b/target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/702-honor_xaui_node_device_tree_status.patch
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  			case CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_XAUI:
 -				dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_xaui_netdev_ops;
 -				strscpy(dev->name, "xaui%d", sizeof(dev->name));
-+				if (of_device_is_available(priv->of_node)) {
++				if (0) { //of_device_is_available(priv->of_node)) {
 +					dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_xaui_netdev_ops;
 +					strscpy(dev->name, "xaui%d", sizeof(dev->name));
 +				}