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CaféHaine

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Registered: 2017-07-09

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[SOLVED] Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi SDIO driver

Hi,
I'm trying to use wifi on my Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 300-10IBY which uses the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi SDIO card.

Since I saw here that the driver was merged in linux 4.12 I downloaded the linux-hardened (only one using linux 4.12) package and rebooted my tablet.
Sadly "ip link" does not show any new network interface, and I didn't find the module to load to enable it.

ls - R | grep 8723

shows me rtl8723(ae|be|com) but not bs

Did I miss anything ?

Thanks in advance !

Last edited by CaféHaine (2017-07-09 11:46:05)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi SDIO driver

eventually merged into the kernel staging tree in time for kernel 4.12-rc1

The kernel staging tree is kind of  a testing ground for new/experimental  stuff, modules in that part are not always enabled.
You may need to build a custom kernel with it enabled.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi SDIO driver

linux-hardened 4.12.c-1 does not have the driver enabled.
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/comm … ened#n6529
linux 4.12-2 from staging does have the driver enabled.
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … inux#n6571

CaféHaine

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Registered: 2017-07-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi SDIO driver

alright thanks a lot !
I'll see what I can do in my free time

[EDIT] if anyone wonders how I did it, I added the staging repo in my pacman config then I installed the package staging/linux, it's working now

Last edited by CaféHaine (2017-07-09 11:54:43)