missing support for rtl8821ae
Bug #1287298 reported by
Paolo Pisati
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Cheap all-in-one pcs are showing up with this wireless chip built-in, e.g.:
http://
and right now our T kernel doesn't have any support for it.
description: | updated |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | Incomplete → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: trusty |
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Lately a new driver was added to staging that adds support for this chip:
commit 3c05bedb5fef7a6 ada63c5dbf61e12 58b9019f05
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Jan 21 11:20:45 2014 -0800
Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver
This comes directly from the Realtek tarball, filename:
wifi_driver_ 8821ae_ 0018.1129. 2013.tar. gz
I mushed the three modules (btcoexist, rtlwifi and rtl8821ae) together
into one, in order to make it all build as one stand-alone module.
After the btcoexist driver gets merged upstream, I'll pull it out of
here, and will continue to work on removing this version of rtlwifi in
order to use the in-kernel one.
Cc: Larry Finger <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
i cherry picked this driver, added it to our T kernel and made it build like a module - a test kernel is available here:
http:// people. canonical. com/~ppisati/ R8821AE/ linux-image- 3.13.0- 15-generic_ 3.13.0- 15.35~R8821AE_ amd64.deb