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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000567 | channel: elrepo/el7 | --elrepo--request-for-enhancement-- | public | 2015-04-04 14:14 | 2015-04-06 05:11 |
| Reporter | jvell | Assigned To | pperry | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0000567: RTL8723BE driver not building against 3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64 | ||||
| Description | Was able to build the driver on 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 DriverSource: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/ [^] Suspects: ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/mac80211.h ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/cfg80211.h ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h ./3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64/include/net/mac80211.h ./3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64/include/net/cfg80211.h ./3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h In ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/cfg80211.h: struct cfg80211_wowlan_trig_pkt_pattern In ./3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64/include/net/cfg80211.h: struct cfg80211_pkt_pattern More info: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/40 | ||||
| Additional Information | [jvalentijn@lenny ~]$ lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [8086:0a04] (rev 0b) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b) 00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller [8086:0a0c] (rev 0b) 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC [8086:9c31] (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 [8086:9c3a] (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller [8086:9c20] (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:9c14] (rev e4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:9c16] (rev e4) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 [8086:9c26] (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller [8086:9c43] (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] [8086:9c03] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller [8086:9c22] (rev 04) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10) 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:b723] | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Reported upstream | Was able to build the driver on 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 DriverSource: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/ [^] Suspects: ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/mac80211.h ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/cfg80211.h ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 | ||||
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I've built you a kmod driver package and uploaded it to the elrepo testing repository. The packages are currently syncing to the mirrors and should show up shortly here: http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el7/x86_64/RPMS/ kmod-rtl8723be-0.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm If you have the elrepo repository installed, you can install the package with: yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-rtl8723be and reboot Please test the above package and report back if it works as expected. Thanks |
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Forgot to mention - this driver will still require any appropriate firmware to be installed, as you may have been using previously. |
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I've installed the package and rebooted. The WiFi interface was brought up and connected to the network, using this now to post this. It works better than expected because I didn't have to do anything else than what you've described. I'm very interested to learn how it was fixed. Thank you! |
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RH just closed my bugreport, itsnotabug... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208980 Did you build the driver by modifying the kernel src or driver source or both? Thanks. |
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Thanks for your feedback - I'll promote the package to the main elrepo repository. As I said before, Red Hat updated the wireless stack in the 7.1 kernel from kernel-3.16, so I backported the rtl8723be driver from kernel-3.16 and as expected it builds fine against the RHEL-7.1 kernel. This driver will only work for 7.1 - it will not work for older 7.0 kernels. Thanks again for the feedback. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-04 14:14 | jvell | New Issue | |
| 2015-04-04 14:14 | jvell | Status | new => assigned |
| 2015-04-04 14:14 | jvell | Assigned To | => toracat |
| 2015-04-04 14:14 | jvell | Reported upstream | => Was able to build the driver on 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 DriverSource: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/ [^] Suspects: ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/mac80211.h ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64/include/net/cfg80211.h ./3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 |
| 2015-04-04 14:20 | pperry | Assigned To | toracat => pperry |
| 2015-04-04 15:48 | pperry | Note Added: 0004287 | |
| 2015-04-04 15:51 | pperry | Note Added: 0004288 | |
| 2015-04-05 03:14 | jvell | Note Added: 0004289 | |
| 2015-04-06 02:00 | jvell | Note Added: 0004290 | |
| 2015-04-06 05:09 | pperry | Note Added: 0004291 | |
| 2015-04-06 05:11 | pperry | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2015-04-06 05:11 | pperry | Resolution | open => fixed |
