embeddedandroid/meta-rtlwifi

OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project development layer for out of tree Realtek WiFi Linux kernel drivers

meta-rtlwifi

OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project development layer for out of tree Realtek WiFi Linux kernel drivers

At the moment, only USB drivers are added by this layer as most IoT devices lack support of PCIe and other peripheral connection systems to support other Realtek chipsets.

see more information about Realtek WIFI chipsets

meta-rtlwifi's Issues

RTL8723du recipe

I have a new wifi stick with rtl8723du chipset. i took this source code https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723du and tried to build it via yocto. Build was successful but i dont see any wlan0 in image. Do you guys have any plan about this recipe as well? i can push my recipe to you to take a look?

Update for RTL8812AU

Current repo is obsolete now. Maintainer inform to move on new repo - https://github.com/gordboy/rtl8812au-5.6.4.2

Please create dunfell branch

As there is no dunfell branch in this repo, the OE layer index does not show meta-rtlwifi when you search for layers compatible with the dunfell release. We know that the master branch of meta-rtlwifi is compatible with several recent releases but it looks like the OE layer index only looks at branch names.

This breaks the listing for meta-sancloud in the layer index as our layer depends on meta-rtlwifi. The dunfell branch of meta-sancloud is rejected as the layer index thinks the dependencies cannot be met (as meta-rtlwifi has no corresponding dunfell branch).

This should be easily fixed by creating a dunfell branch in this repo.

(no issue) RTL8812AU is being deployed to different part than the other drivers

Although the package has been activated and is compiled, the kernel module is not added to the deployment image.
The licence files are, though.

To me it seems, as if the recipie is missing some parts that are available in the recipies for the other drivers. Adding the missing lines via .bbappend did the trick for me. I'll prepare an MR.

The missing lines are

MODULES_INSTALL_TARGET="install"

do_install () {
    install -d ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
    install -m 0644 ${B}/8812au.ko ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8812au.ko
}

FILES_${PN} += "${nonarch_base_libdir}/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8812au.ko"
RPROVIDES_${PN} += "kernel-module-${PN}-${KERNEL_VERSION}"

RTL8192 build fails

Hi,

When trying to build the driver for the rtl8192 chip, the build keeps failing with the message below

ERROR: rtl8192eu-1.0-git-r0 do_compile: oe_runmake failed
ERROR: rtl8192eu-1.0-git-r0 do_compile: Execution of '/home/rayaan/azureSphere_yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/stm32mp1-poky-linux-gnueabi/rtl8192eu/1.0-git-r0/temp/run.do_compile.209085' failed with exit code 1
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/rayaan/azureSphere_yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/stm32mp1-poky-linux-gnueabi/rtl8192eu/1.0-git-r0/temp/log.do_compile.209085

Old branch names in LAYERSERIES_COMPAT

Is this layer tested with all the old branch names in LAYERSERIES_COMPAT? I worry seeing so many old branches named that support for some of them may have bitrotted if it's not been tested with changes to this layer.