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On 09/14/2013 11:10 AM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On 09/14/2013 10:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 14/09/2013 16:36, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>> So, for work, I got a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. I've got it booting |
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>>> Gentoo. The rtl8723au chipset, which manages both wifi and bluetooth in |
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>>> this laptop, does not have a driver in =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.7. |
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>>> |
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>>> Everything I know about the driver comes from two places. First, the |
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>>> LKML thread where Larry Finger announced his obtainment of the driver |
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>>> from Realtek, and his uploading it to github. |
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>>> |
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>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/280 |
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>>> |
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>>> Second, the relevant Github repo (and the particular commit at which I |
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>>> have it): |
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>>> |
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>>> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723au/commit/58a426d1ce29d8c26c36630ef8970afdc6876fcc |
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>>> |
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>>> Now, here's what's weird. That driver code works fine under Ubuntu |
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>>> 13.04. Boot into Ubuntu 13.04, build the driver, insmod 8723au.ko, and |
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>>> NetworkManager/nm-applet tells me wireless networks are available. |
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>>> |
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>>> Under Gentoo, using 3.10.7, no such luck. Build the driver, insmod it, |
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>>> and NetworkManager suddenly thinks there's a *wired* NIC present. The |
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>>> Yoga 13 doesn't have a wired NIC. |
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>> Eh? That is weird. Have you tried vanilla-sources to take gentoo |
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>> patchset out of the equation? |
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> I have not. I'll try that next. |
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Tried with vanilla 3.10.11 and vanilla 3.11.0. Same symptoms. |
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