Booted into the Armbian image today - 5.4.43-sunxi64. The wlan0 was able to be activated ok. Dmesg had some detail of the module being loaded. This is much the same as appears in Fedora.
Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.369702] RTL8723BS: module init start Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.369710] RTL8723BS: rtl8723bs v4.3.5.5_12290.20140916_BTCOEX20140507-4E40 Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.369712] RTL8723BS: rtl8723bs BT-Coex version = BTCOEX20140507-4E40 Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.369941] pnetdev = (____ptrval____) Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.395745] axp20x-adc axp813-adc: DMA mask not set Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.436782] RTL8723BS: rtw_ndev_init(wlan0) Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 8.439808] RTL8723BS: module init ret =0 But then this Jun 7 18:11:59 localhost kernel: [ 127.473668] rtl8723bs: acquire FW from file:rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin And this Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 9.421354] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=06 hci_rev=000b lmp_ver=06 lmp_subver=8723 Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 9.425867] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1 Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 9.425878] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8723bs_fw.bin Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 9.426773] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8723bs_fw.bin failed with error -2 Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 9.426789] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8723bs_fw.bin not found Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 10.320346] zram0: detected capacity change from 0 to 52428800 Jun 7 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [ 12.973703] zram2: detected capacity change from 0 to 1044611072 Can I glean anything from Armbian that might help me get r8723bs working in Fedora? The file rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin is present in my Fedora 32 Arm. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
