Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
Thank you very much for the clarification. It seems that the (non-free) firmware is not absolutely necessary for those cards. Next, I may want to find a Realtek card and see whether it works with Debian testing with deblobbed Linux 4.16.x kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
Once I heard that certain Realtek WLAN adapters do work on free/libre distributions like Trisquel. Does this mean that such models have been "reverse engineered" (i.e. free firmware available)?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
Yeah, you download the .deb, copy the file to the machine, and do sudo dpkg -i /path/to/file
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
Never mind. He says WiFi is working now, from a new location. Maybe it was a problem with the access points he was trying. Sorry for the noise. When I have a chance to look at his computer I'll look into whether or not the working WiFi is a freedom issue. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
> Similar behavior was reported in January by Magic Banana: > https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/testing-trisquel-8-upgrade-process#comment-125668 Thanks. It seems that the conclusion in that thread was that the WiFi card should not have worked in Trisquel. Maybe jxself's suggestion of trying 4.16 will work, but even so it's still a freedom bug that it worked with 4.4 in Trisquel. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
> I guess the first question is what changed between yesterday and today? > Because something clearly did. > It would be good to check through the logs to see what is happening. I agree, but he can't recall any changes, and he's out of town and can only communicate by text message, so troubleshooting is difficult and I won't be able to look at the logs until he gets back. > It's also possible that 4.16 and newer might restore functionality: > https://trisquel.info/en/forum/linux-libre-416-realtek-radeon-more Thanks. It seems like that could be worth a try. If he could access the Internet on his machine I would have him add your repo to his sources.list, but he has no means of accessing the Internet other than WiFi. Is there a way for him to install 4.16 offline by downloading the necessary files on someone else's machine and copying them over on a USB drive? Building from source might be a problem if he's missing dependencies, since he'd have no way of installing them, but a .deb file might work. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
I guess the first question is what changed between yesterday and today? Because something clearly did. It would be good to check through the logs to see what is happening. It's also possible that 4.16 and newer might restore functionality: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/linux-libre-416-realtek-radeon-more
Re: [Trisquel-users] Realtek RTL8188EE
Similar behavior was reported in January by Magic Banana: https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/testing-trisquel-8-upgrade-process#comment-125668
