Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-08-23 Thread PhM
paul- wrote: > That model says no linux support, but others do. This is a quote from > their website. > > > Are they providing driver source? If you have functional source, it > would be trivial to build yourself. Using this process. > https://github.com/piCorePlayer/pCP-Kernels The

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-08-23 Thread PhM
paul- wrote: > Because the drivers are not maintained by Realtek, nor anyone with the > linux kernel. Every kernel release requires modifications that I had > to make. @Paul: this is the USB Wifi antenna I own from Brostrend

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-08-22 Thread PhM
paul- wrote: > I am unable to maintain crap drivers from Realtek. It’s not hard to do, > Read the OP, which links to the instructions. I do understand your frustration, however why didn’t you at least reproduce what you had already integrated on v7 which runs perfectly ? I’m not really

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-08-21 Thread PhM
The migration from v7 to v8 occurred flawlessly, however no chance to get my USB Wifi card working. After some reading on this thread I understood the end-user needs now to recompile the kernel with the drivers….. not really plug and play as it used to be. Any chance to get the drivers back-in