system/easy-kernel does not include driver for RTL8723BE wifi card
| 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.)