[opensuse] Combined wifi bluetooth RTL8723DE on an HP 15 laptop has bluetooth only.
Hi, I've bought an HP 15 laptop where neither blue tooth or wifi works under both 42.3 and Leap 15.0. Of course it works perfectly under windows 10. I googled and found that Larry Finger maintains a git hub repository of such drivers and I checked out rtlwifi_new which has my RTL8723DE driver src but it fails to build most probably due to the Leap:15.0 kernel being altered. Can anybody help, I'm currently stumped. Thanks Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/28/2018 01:31 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've bought an HP 15 laptop where neither blue tooth or wifi works under both 42.3 and Leap 15.0. Of course it works perfectly under windows 10. I googled and found that Larry Finger maintains a git hub repository of such drivers and I checked out rtlwifi_new which has my RTL8723DE driver src but it fails to build most probably due to the Leap:15.0 kernel being altered. Can anybody help, I'm currently stumped.
Thanks Dave P
This is part of the price you pay for Opensuse basing their latest release on an obsolete deprecated kernel. https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de supports it with kernle 4.15. You can try installing kernel-firmware from Leap 15. The change log of that package suggests it was included in there, and my version seems to have something that looks like it might work
jsa@poulsbo:~> locate -i RTL8723DE /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723defw.bin
You might file a bug report if that does not work. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 28/06/18 21:03, John Andersen wrote:
On 06/28/2018 01:31 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've bought an HP 15 laptop where neither blue tooth or wifi works under both 42.3 and Leap 15.0. Of course it works perfectly under windows 10. I googled and found that Larry Finger maintains a git hub repository of such drivers and I checked out rtlwifi_new which has my RTL8723DE driver src but it fails to build most probably due to the Leap:15.0 kernel being altered. Can anybody help, I'm currently stumped.
Thanks Dave P
This is part of the price you pay for Opensuse basing their latest release on an obsolete deprecated kernel. https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de supports it with kernle 4.15.
You can try installing kernel-firmware from Leap 15. The change log of that package suggests it was included in there, and my version seems to have something that looks like it might work
jsa@poulsbo:~> locate -i RTL8723DE /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723defw.bin
You might file a bug report if that does not work.
I saw the firmware file, I'm still trying to work out how to install it. I suppose my next step should be a kernel from kernel head and to file a bug. Thanks Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/29/2018 08:55 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
I saw the firmware file, I'm still trying to work out how to install it. I suppose my next step should be a kernel from kernel head and to file a bug.
This file is part of kernel-firmware-20180416-lp150.1.4.noarch. You install the package and the kernel *driver* will use it. If this doesn't work, then it's a bug. If you have a laptop that doesn't work with Leap 15 kernel, then file a bug report. It is also nice if you actually report things that don't work instead of "it doesn't work" and "I'm lost". First thing to report would be lcpci -v output for your device. And if you are stuck with compiler errors, then at least post (some of) them to at least raise interest? Good luck, - Adam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 29/06/18 09:24, Adam Majer wrote:
On 06/29/2018 08:55 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
I saw the firmware file, I'm still trying to work out how to install it. I suppose my next step should be a kernel from kernel head and to file a bug.
This file is part of kernel-firmware-20180416-lp150.1.4.noarch. You install the package and the kernel *driver* will use it. If this doesn't work, then it's a bug.
If you have a laptop that doesn't work with Leap 15 kernel, then file a bug report.
It is also nice if you actually report things that don't work instead of "it doesn't work" and "I'm lost". First thing to report would be lcpci -v output for your device. And if you are stuck with compiler errors, then at least post (some of) them to at least raise interest?
Good luck, - Adam
I have already made text files of dmidecode, hwinfo and lsusb -vd 0bda:b009 in preparation for a bug report but asking if anyone else has had this experience is useful. I must still find out if the latest stable kernel fixes the problem then the fix can be backported to Leap. kernel-firmware-20180416-lp150.1.4.noarch is installed, that's where /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723defw.bin comes from. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/29/2018 12:44 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
I must still find out if the latest stable kernel fixes the problem then the fix can be backported to Leap.
But the firmware was shipped with Leap 15, so there should be no reason to change kernels. Opensuse Leap does not officially support kernels other than what they ship. The problem most likely is that the wrong driver is loaded, and you might have to figure out what driver that was, then rmmod that one (and black list it) and then modprobe the proper one. Still file the bug report so the hardware detection stuff at install time does it correctly and the next guy won't find the same problem. But since opensuse only fixes security issues, even the bug fix will not find its way into the installed dvd, and will only be available after the new installation gets updates on line. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 28/06/18 10:31, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've bought an HP 15 laptop where neither blue tooth or wifi works under both 42.3 and Leap 15.0. Of course it works perfectly under windows 10. I googled and found that Larry Finger maintains a git hub repository of such drivers and I checked out rtlwifi_new which has my RTL8723DE driver src but it fails to build most probably due to the Leap:15.0 kernel being altered. Can anybody help, I'm currently stumped.
Thanks Dave P
Filed bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099758 The driver built from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new builds against the 4.17 kernel and works perfectly. RTL8723DE is also part of a combined bletooth/wifi usb dongle but be aware that I only found the actual part number in the windows device manager. hwinfo and lsusb only show the vendor and device codes. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Dave Plater wrote:
On 28/06/18 10:31, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've bought an HP 15 laptop where neither blue tooth or wifi works under both 42.3 and Leap 15.0. Of course it works perfectly under windows 10. I googled and found that Larry Finger maintains a git hub repository of such drivers and I checked out rtlwifi_new which has my RTL8723DE driver src but it fails to build most probably due to the Leap:15.0 kernel being altered. Can anybody help, I'm currently stumped.
Thanks Dave P
Filed bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099758 The driver built from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new builds against the 4.17 kernel and works perfectly. RTL8723DE is also part of a combined bletooth/wifi usb dongle but be aware that I only found the actual part number in the windows device manager. hwinfo and lsusb only show the vendor and device codes.
I was going to say that means /usr/share/usb.ids needs updating, but that file is no longer part of "usbutils". (the man page "lsusb" still refers to it though.) It looks like lsusb has switched to using the udev hardware database, ie. /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/ -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.1°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 30/06/18 12:48, Per Jessen wrote:
I was going to say that means /usr/share/usb.ids needs updating, but that file is no longer part of "usbutils". (the man page "lsusb" still refers to it though.) It looks like lsusb has switched to using the udev hardware database, ie. /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/
The original device shows as hardware class bluetooth device 0bda:b009 802.11n WLAN Adapter. After the driver is loaded there is also a WLAN controller with code 10ec:d723 on the pci bus. Widows lumps the two together. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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