Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Michael Milliman]

On 06/02/2017 04:03 AM, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:34:20 -0500
> Michael Milliman  wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried the package firmware-realtek??  I'm not absolutely
>> positive that the drivers available in this package will work with your
>> specific 8812/8821 chipset (there are more than one), but it does have
>> drivers for some 8812/8821 chipsets that may work.
> 
> from a quick glance at the page the OP has linked I doubt that any of the
> drivers that are currently included in the linux kernel will work with
> this chipset if you just add some firmware file(s), I guess this is the
> reason why the developers bothered to write that driver ;)
> 
> I have here a similar problem with a realtek8723bs chipset, the 8723ae
> and 8723be drivers are no good for that one.
> 
I've had a similar problem in the past (quite some time ago).  AIR, I
had to do some searching to find a driver that would compile under
Debian and install it myself.  I haven't used the device that required
that in quite a while, and it is not needed on my current system, but I
think that a usable driver did eventually find its way into the
Debian distribution.  One of the side-effects of Debian policy is that
it takes quite a while for these things to work their way through the
system to the distro.
>>From what the project page suggests, building and installing the 8821au
> driver seems to be easy enough (no patches and no additional firmware
> files required) so I think it should be possible to build a debian
> package which could be added to a custom debian iso.
> 
>>From what the OP writes however I am not sure if they meant to include the
> driver in the official debian distro instead. This would surely require
> the driver to be added to the official kernel first. Even if this happens
> there is no guarantee that debian will include it in their kernel
> packages (as is currently the case with the rtl8723bs driver which
> finally made it into the kernel but is not included in debian's 4.11
> kernel package).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
>>
>> On 06/01/2017 05:49 PM, Jessica Litwin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Wei-Shun Lo >> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Debian,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network
>>> installation?  
>>> Many cards are using this driver.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
>>> 
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ralic 
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>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In the past I have made my own ISOs and included the contents of
>>> linux-firmware. Perhaps this may be something you can do also?
>>>
>>> // jkl
>>
>> -- 
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>>
>>
> 
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Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:53:08PM +, Wei-Shun Lo wrote:
> Yes, that is possible, however this card is supplied as a nano USB card
> that enable old computers that had no wifi card, so I would like to make a
> suggestion to include this card's firmware to Debian live's image.

Oh, you want it in debian-live, not in Debian.

The debian-live mailing list's web page is
.  I'd suggest posting debian-live
requests to that mailing list, instead of this one.

Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:34:20 -0500
Michael Milliman  wrote:

> Have you tried the package firmware-realtek??  I'm not absolutely
> positive that the drivers available in this package will work with your
> specific 8812/8821 chipset (there are more than one), but it does have
> drivers for some 8812/8821 chipsets that may work.

from a quick glance at the page the OP has linked I doubt that any of the
drivers that are currently included in the linux kernel will work with
this chipset if you just add some firmware file(s), I guess this is the
reason why the developers bothered to write that driver ;)

I have here a similar problem with a realtek8723bs chipset, the 8723ae
and 8723be drivers are no good for that one.

>From what the project page suggests, building and installing the 8821au
driver seems to be easy enough (no patches and no additional firmware
files required) so I think it should be possible to build a debian
package which could be added to a custom debian iso.

>From what the OP writes however I am not sure if they meant to include the
driver in the official debian distro instead. This would surely require
the driver to be added to the official kernel first. Even if this happens
there is no guarantee that debian will include it in their kernel
packages (as is currently the case with the rtl8723bs driver which
finally made it into the kernel but is not included in debian's 4.11
kernel package).

Regards

Michael


> 
> On 06/01/2017 05:49 PM, Jessica Litwin wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Wei-Shun Lo  > > wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Debian,
> > 
> > Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network
> > installation?  
> > Many cards are using this driver.
> > 
> > https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Ralic 
> > -- 
> > 
> > ************************************
> > * _Contact Info_
> > ** *
> >  *US Mobile: 1-408-609-7628  > 20609-7628>   * 
> > Em
> > ail: rali...@gmail.com
> >  Line/ Skype :
> > ralic_lo
> > ************************************
> > *
> > 
> > *
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > In the past I have made my own ISOs and included the contents of
> > linux-firmware. Perhaps this may be something you can do also?
> > 
> > // jkl
> 
> -- 
> 73's,
> WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray
> 
> 



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Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Michael Milliman]

Have you tried the package firmware-realtek??  I'm not absolutely
positive that the drivers available in this package will work with your
specific 8812/8821 chipset (there are more than one), but it does have
drivers for some 8812/8821 chipsets that may work.

On 06/01/2017 05:49 PM, Jessica Litwin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Wei-Shun Lo  > wrote:
> 
> Dear Debian,
> 
> Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network
> installation?  
> Many cards are using this driver.
> 
> https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ralic 
> -- 
> 
> ************************************
> * _Contact Info_** 
>*
>  *US Mobile: 1-408-609-7628    *
>  
> Em
> ail: rali...@gmail.com  
>  Line/ Skype : ralic_lo
> 
> ************************************
> *
> 
> *
> 
> 
> 
> In the past I have made my own ISOs and included the contents of
> linux-firmware. Perhaps this may be something you can do also?
> 
> // jkl

-- 
73's,
WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray

Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Wei-Shun Lo]

Dear Jessica,

Yes, that is possible, however this card is supplied as a nano USB card
that enable old computers that had no wifi card, so I would like to make a
suggestion to include this card's firmware to Debian live's image.

Best,
Ralic

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:50 PM Jessica Litwin  wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Wei-Shun Lo  wrote:
>
>> Dear Debian,
>>
>> Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network
>> installation?
>> Many cards are using this driver.
>>
>> https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ralic
>> --
>> ************************
>> ************
>> * Contact Info*
>>
>>  *US Mobile: 1-408-609-7628 <(408)%20609-7628>   *
>>
>> Em
>> ail: rali...@gmail.com
>>  Line/ Skype : ralic_lo
>> ************************
>> ************
>>
>>
>>
>
> In the past I have made my own ISOs and included the contents of
> linux-firmware. Perhaps this may be something you can do also?
>
> // jkl
>
-- 
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************
* Contact Info*
 *US Mobile: 1-408-609-7628   *

Em
ail: rali...@gmail.com
 Line/ Skype : ralic_lo
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Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Jessica Litwin]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Wei-Shun Lo  wrote:

> Dear Debian,
>
> Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network
> installation?
> Many cards are using this driver.
>
> https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
>
> Best regards,
> Ralic
> --
> ************************
> ************
> * Contact Info*
>
>  *US Mobile: 1-408-609-7628 <(408)%20609-7628>   *
>
> Em
> ail: rali...@gmail.com
>  Line/ Skype : ralic_lo
> ************************
> ************
>
>
>

In the past I have made my own ISOs and included the contents of
linux-firmware. Perhaps this may be something you can do also?

// jkl

RTL8812/8821 network cards

[Wei-Shun Lo]

Dear Debian,

Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network
installation?
Many cards are using this driver.

https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux

Best regards,
Ralic
-- 
************************
************
* Contact Info*
 *US Mobile: 1-408-609-7628   *

Em
ail: rali...@gmail.com
 Line/ Skype : ralic_lo
************************
************