[fedora-arm] Realtek wifi on ARM devices

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 10:07:52 UTC 2015


>> I know from various questions in the past that a number of ARM devices
>> come with realtek wifi interfaces. A new driver the a lot of the
>> realtek usb wifi devices has landed in the 4.4 kernel. All the gory
>> details are in the commit log [1] it's not a fully featured driver
>> just yet but should work well for the standard connect to your AP use
>> case.
>>
>>   It would be great if those of you with such devices could test a
>> rawhide kernel and report back good and/or bad experiences.
>
>
> Cool stuff, a lot of Allwinner devices come with these wifi chips
> atm I do not really have time to run any sort of worth-while
> tests. But I'll enable this driver in my own local build test kernels
> and I will try to use it whenever I use wifi.
>
> Jens, are there any plans to also add support for sdio based variants of
> these chips ?  Quite a few devices also come with sdio based variants,
> such as the C.H.I.P.

Yes, I'm been meaning to ask the same question, it seems they're also
used on a bunch of windows tablets too.

Peter


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