likely the device tree file needs to have the wif device added for it
to show up.
Dennis
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:19 PM brm <brm(a)deadjoe.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all. OS is 5.7.8-200.fc32.aarch64 Fedora Server running headless on Pine64
> sbc. The system works well. Currently eth0 is the main network device, but I
> have another use for this cable and wish to implement the wifi. This is
> proving problematic as it seems to use the rtl8723bs module. Despite a lot of
> googling there is no sign of wlan0.
>
> Here I load the realtek module.
>
> r8723bs: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you
> have been warned.
> [34784.402732] RTL8723BS: module init start
> [34784.406673] RTL8723BS: rtl8723bs
> v4.3.5.5_12290.20140916_BTCOEX20140507-4E40
> [34784.413770] RTL8723BS: rtl8723bs BT-Coex version = BTCOEX20140507-4E40
> [34784.420437] RTL8723BS: module init ret =0
>
> If I go to /usr/lib/firmware/rtlwifi - these files are present.
>
> │-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20886 Jun 20 02:37 rtl8723bs_ap_wowlan.bin
> │
> │-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9120 Jun 20 02:37 rtl8723bs_bt.bin
> │
> │-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32108 Jun 20 02:37 rtl8723bs_nic.bin
> │
> │-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26398 Jun 20 02:37 rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin
>
> I am not sure how to use these. I was hoping that modprobe would activate the
> device and wlan0 would appear. But this is not the case. Any ideas?
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