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Created Aug 12, 2019 by Emily@emily🤖

system/easy-kernel: driver for RTL8723BE wifi card not included

Bugzilla ID 177
Reporter Molly Miller
Assignee A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Reported 2019-08-12 17:50:06 -0500
Modified 2019-08-13 13:24:13 -0500
Status RESOLVED FIXED
Version 1.0-BETA3
Hardware Adélie Linux / All
Importance --- / normal

Description

I have a laptop with a Realtek RTL8723BE wifi card, however easy-kernel 4.14.127-mc14 does not ship with a driver for this card, which means that the kernel never recognises its presence. I have used this hardware successfully with Debian in the past, and inspecting Adélie and Debian's kernel configurations, it seems that Debian sets CONFIG_RTL8723BE=m, while Adélie does not set this Kconfig knob, which results in the driver not being built.

(Additionally, there are a number of Kconfig handles matching /CONFIG_RTL8\d{3}../ corresponding to other Realtek wifi cards which Debian builds as modules but Adélie does not build at all.)

Edited Feb 02, 2022 by Zach van Rijn
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