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OLIMEX / DIY-LAPTOP

Do It Yourself Open Source Hardware and Software Modular Hacker's Friendly Laptop
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Provide the firmware for RTL8723BS in the repository #66

Closed Kreyren closed 10 months ago

Kreyren commented 11 months ago

The current design is dependent on that file to get the WiFi and BLE to work

DanKoloff commented 10 months ago

I don't think we have it. I think it has Realtek firmware and the firmware sources probably are not open source. Drivers should be available tho.

Kreyren commented 10 months ago

@DanKoloff There seems to be sources for the driver, but i wasn't able to figure out if it's open-source or not e.g. https://github.com/anthonywong/rtl8723bs it also claims that Since Linux 4.12, rtl8723bs has been merged. Therefore, this repo is now obsolete. but i don't see it anywhere in the linux kernel beyond the firmware mentioned below?

Additionally it's in linux-firmware so at very least i would at least provide a text file pointing out where to find it.

Kreyren commented 10 months ago

Actually it seems to be there in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs and under GPLv2.. i try to mess with it..

Kreyren commented 10 months ago

oh i seem to already have this running on my experimental NixOS build without noticing so yes it seems that the driver if open-source and mainlined