Ndiswrapper for unsupported Realtek RTL8723DE wireless module?

praka123 · 2017-10-19 20:01:12

Firstly, the driver for this new wlan module: RTL8723DE on my new HP 15-BS576TX laptop is not available as of now (may be after 5-6 months). Is NDISwrapper project still alive? Will it work with the Windows 7/8 driver provided by HP? Here is the Windows 10/8/7 driver for this RTL8723DE wlan module: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp80501-81000/sp80963.html

I extracted the exe and can see a folder /RTWLANE_Driver/Wind7X86/ which has rtwlane.sys and few other files which I presume is related to the wireless driver. Is there any chances of luck with ndiswrapper considering the driver executable actually contains win8/win7 drivers.

Last edited by praka123 (2017-10-19 20:01:43)

progandy · 2017-10-19 20:20:33

ndiswrapper is not dead yet (I think), but it looks like life support to me. It supports only windows xp/2003 drivers and nothing newer, so you'll have to wait for realtek to provide linux drivers.

Last edited by progandy (2017-10-19 21:46:57)

praka123 · 2017-10-19 20:50:41

progandy wrote:

ndiswrapper is not dead yet (I think), but it looks like life support to me. It only supports only windows xp/2003 drivers and nothing newer, so you'll have to wait for realtek to provide linux drivers.

Oh..that means Windows 7 driver does not stand a chance. Will wait for the native driver as explained by larry finger: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/270

Anyways, I'm getting a cheap atheros/ralink usb wireless adapter for the time being.

praka123 · 2017-12-07 00:11:33

..And I installed the Windows 7 64-bit driver (RTWLANE folder) using ndiswrapper and it even got listed. However, the kern.log shows that the driver is not initiated. I can load ndiswrapper and even it lists netwrtlane as installed. But, Wireless module is not detected and configured, neither seems to be working with the Windows 7 64-bit driver that I used with ndiswrapper.
The driver is provided by HP for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 versions. I used Win 7 64-bit driver after extracting the executable. I even made sure to copy all the available files to be inside a single folder, in case, if that helped. Ndiswrapper says driver is installed.

 :~$ ndiswrapper -l
netrtwlane  :  driver installed
        device (10EC:D723) present

But, throws error messages in syslog:

kernel: [ 1755.786026] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:200): couldn't prepare driver 'netrtwlane'
kernel: [ 1755.786509] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:103): couldn't load driver netrtwlane; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
kernel: [       1755.786577] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

Besides, the syslog shows "unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS" "unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS".
detailed syslog:
http://pasted.co/a293d2d1

Any luck can I expect?

praka123 · 2017-12-27 05:54:55

UPDATE: There is an unofficial native Linux driver available here. Yes, now RTL8723DE is supported.

https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de (Original source)
https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8723de/branches (Forked)
^^ Both are the same, maintained by two different people.

Install using DKMS or simply make install scripts.
Here is a howto: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook- … -p/6477307

Arch Linux

#1 2017-10-19 20:01:12

Ndiswrapper for unsupported Realtek RTL8723DE wireless module?

#2 2017-10-19 20:20:33

Re: Ndiswrapper for unsupported Realtek RTL8723DE wireless module?

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Re: Ndiswrapper for unsupported Realtek RTL8723DE wireless module?

#4 2017-12-07 00:11:33

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