Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2022, 11:18:34 CEST schrieb Suse User:
Hello,
I have been advised that Bugzilla is not the right place for suggesting a new driver to be used and that the packaging mailing list is a more proper place for this. So, I subscribe to this list and I share with you my findings and suggestion for replacing the current rtl8188eu driver which requires a proprietary blob for firmware with a FOSS one.
Here are the details:
This is my build of Larry Fingers source: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Sauerland:hardware/rtl8188eu But in Kernel:stable, its inside the Kernel: modinfo r8188eu filename: /lib/modules/5.17.4-lp153.3.g75e9961-default/kernel/drivers/staging/r8188eu/r8188eu.ko.zst version: v4.1.4_6773.20130222 author: Realtek Semiconductor Corp. description: Realtek Wireless Lan Driver license: GPL suserelease: openSUSE Tumbleweed srcversion: 6B03E9A67F863A85AC97C05 alias: usb:v7392pB811d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v0B05p18F0d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2C4Ep0102d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2357p0111d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2357p010Cd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v056Ep4008d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2001p331Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2001p3311d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2001p3310d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v2001p330Fd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v0DF6p0076d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v07B8p8179d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v0BDAp0179d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias: usb:v0BDAp8179d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* depends: usbcore,libarc4 . . . . Stephan