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lwfinger / rtl8723au

Repo for RTL8723AU code before Linux Kernel commit
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Kernel version of driver #60

Open dima74 opened 8 years ago

dima74 commented 8 years ago

Hello! Thank you for your excellent driver! I have arch-linux (kernel 4.8.6). There is driver r8723au included in kernel. It works, but speed is too slow, so I clone your repository, and run commands as in README.md. Also I add line blacklist r8723au to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. Now wifi works perfectly. My question is: did I everything right? Or should I somehow configure in-kernel driver? (And what is the difference between these drivers (kernel version r8723au and github version 8723au)?) Thanks for reading, thanks if answer something. (Sorry for my English)

lwfinger commented 8 years ago

What you did sounds fine. The original driver from Realtek was cleaned up and submitted to the kernel by Jes Sorensen. I took that version and put it in this repo. Here, the only modifications were those needed to allow it to build on older kernels.

There are actually two driver for the RTL8723AU in the kernel. The older is r8723au in the staging tree. The newer one is rtl8xxxu in the normal wireless tree. It would be useful to run the lsmod command to see whether you are using that one or 8723au from this repo.

I do not have any RTL8723AU hardware, thus I have not used any of these drivers.