On 09/14/2013 11:10 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On 09/14/2013 10:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 14/09/2013 16:36, Michael Mol wrote: >>> So, for work, I got a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. I've got it booting >>> Gentoo. The rtl8723au chipset, which manages both wifi and bluetooth in >>> this laptop, does not have a driver in =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.7. >>> >>> Everything I know about the driver comes from two places. First, the >>> LKML thread where Larry Finger announced his obtainment of the driver >>> from Realtek, and his uploading it to github. >>> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/280 >>> >>> Second, the relevant Github repo (and the particular commit at which I >>> have it): >>> >>> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723au/commit/58a426d1ce29d8c26c36630ef8970afdc6876fcc >>> >>> Now, here's what's weird. That driver code works fine under Ubuntu >>> 13.04. Boot into Ubuntu 13.04, build the driver, insmod 8723au.ko, and >>> NetworkManager/nm-applet tells me wireless networks are available. >>> >>> Under Gentoo, using 3.10.7, no such luck. Build the driver, insmod it, >>> and NetworkManager suddenly thinks there's a *wired* NIC present. The >>> Yoga 13 doesn't have a wired NIC. >> >> Eh? That is weird. Have you tried vanilla-sources to take gentoo >> patchset out of the equation? > > I have not. I'll try that next. >
Tried with vanilla 3.10.11 and vanilla 3.11.0. Same symptoms.
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