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McMCCRU / rtl8188gu

Driver for Linux RTL8188GU (RTL8710B) (VID:PID = 0x0BDA:0xB711)
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RTL8188GU firmware? #56

Closed a5a5aa555oo closed 1 year ago

a5a5aa555oo commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Sorry that i am going to ask a question not completely related to this repo. I found there is a new kernel patch for the RTL8188GU WNIC, so I built the kernel from the kernel git tree with this patch. but it needs a firmware file called "rtl8710bufw.bin" to work properly. How can i find or make this firmware file? Thanks.

Patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/4edbe29f-00b9-8eef-9789-20bed0b141e2@gmail.com/

dmesg [ 11.332144] usb 1-3: RTL8710BU rev A (unknown) romver 2, 1T1R, TX queues 3, WiFi=1, BT=0, GPS=0, HI PA=0 [ 11.332151] usb 1-3: RTL8710BU MAC: f4:28:53:1b:89:f8 [ 11.332157] usb 1-3: rtl8xxxu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8710bufw.bin [ 11.362090] usb 1-3: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8710bufw.bin failed with error -2 [ 11.362104] usb 1-3: request_firmware(rtlwifi/rtl8710bufw.bin) failed [ 11.362109] usb 1-3: Fatal - failed to load firmware [ 11.362154] rtl8xxxu: probe of 1-3:1.0 failed with error -11

a5a5aa555oo commented 1 year ago

Thank you so much! I will try it later.

a5a5aa555oo commented 1 year ago

Oh! It works now! NO slow upload speed anymore. Hope this new patch getting better and be merged into kernel mainline soon. Thank you, @dubhater and Bitterblue Smith!

https://pastebin.com/Efm4VxHG

a5a5aa555oo commented 1 year ago

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtlwifi

The firmware files for RTL8188GU are in the kernel.org repo now.