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  Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11 Richard Smith <richard.a.smith@protonmail.com> - 2023-11-25 13:30 +0100
    Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11 Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-11-25 17:40 +0100
    Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-11-25 18:10 +0100
    Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-11-26 00:20 +0100

#263824 — Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

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I find the issue with Debian weird, as I was able to use this same computer (Lenovo IdeaPad I7, with a Realtek b52 controller) with Ubuntu, Kali, and Tails, without an issue!

I hear that Debian is awesome when it comes to stability - but after spending over 8 hours trying to install it to my laptop, I'm beginning to question what constitutes as "awesome" in some people's eyes...

I'm trying to learn about how to compile a driver (if I can find one for Debian 12) - if anyone can assist, that would be great!

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#263833

On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 12:21:28 +0000
Richard Smith <richard.a.smith@protonmail.com> wrote:

> I find the issue with Debian weird, as I was able to use this same
> computer (Lenovo IdeaPad I7, with a Realtek b52 controller) with
> Ubuntu, Kali, and Tails, without an issue!

What exactly is your problem? Please show error messages, and also run
lspci or lsusb as appropriate and show us the result.

I searched thinkwiki (https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki) for
"IdeaPad I7" and got nothing.

"RTL8852" is not sufficient to identify which firmware package you need.

root@tsalmoth:~# apt show firmware-realtek | grep -i  RTL8852

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

  * Realtek RTL8852AU Bluetooth config (rtl_bt/rtl8852au_config.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852AU Bluetooth firmware (rtl_bt/rtl8852au_fw.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852BU Bluetooth config (rtl_bt/rtl8852bu_config.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852BU Bluetooth firmware (rtl_bt/rtl8852bu_fw.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852CU Bluetooth config (rtl_bt/rtl8852cu_config.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852CU Bluetooth firmware (rtl_bt/rtl8852cu_fw.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852A firmware, version v0.9.12.2 (rtw89/rtw8852a_fw.bin)
  * Realtek RTL8852B firmware, version v0.27.32.1
  * Realtek RTL8852C firmware, version v0.27.56.10
root@tsalmoth:~# 

Running lspci should give you the exact designation of the device you
have, possibly something similar to this:

root@hawk:~# lspci | grep -i realtek
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
root@hawk:~# 

Please run an appropriate command, then copy and paste into your reply
email, including leading and trailing shell prompts.

You might run the same command(s) under one of the Linux distributions
that does work, and show us those results as well.


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#263835

On Sat 25 Nov 2023 at 12:21:28 (+0000), Richard Smith wrote:
> Testing access to the message.
> 
> I find the issue with Debian weird, as I was able to use this same computer (Lenovo IdeaPad I7, with a Realtek b52 controller) with Ubuntu, Kali, and Tails, without an issue!

In ubuntu, cat /proc/modules would tell you the modules loaded,
and   dmesg | grep firmware   would tell you the firmware required.

> I hear that Debian is awesome when it comes to stability - but after spending over 8 hours trying to install it to my laptop, I'm beginning to question what constitutes as "awesome" in some people's eyes...
> 
> I'm trying to learn about how to compile a driver (if I can find one for Debian 12) - if anyone can assist, that would be great!

Is this an X-Y problem, and you don't really want to compile one,
but just find it.

Cheers,
David.

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#263840

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 12:21:28PM +0000, Richard Smith wrote:
> I find the issue with Debian weird, as I was able to use this same computer (Lenovo IdeaPad I7, with a Realtek b52 controller) with Ubuntu, Kali, and Tails, without an issue!
> 
> I hear that Debian is awesome when it comes to stability - but after spending over 8 hours trying to install it to my laptop, I'm beginning to question what constitutes as "awesome" in some people's eyes...

Your opinion piece is best posted to your blog as it won't help you
get assistance in a Debian support venue.

> I'm trying to learn about how to compile a driver (if I can find
> one for Debian 12) - if anyone can assist, that would be great!

I have a laptop with an RTL8852be which runs Debian 12. I had to
install a DKMS module to get support for it. I reported this to
debian-kernel here:

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2023/03/msg00275.html

that link also contains a link to the github repository for the DKMS
that I successfully use. If that driver is for your hardware, I
suggest you try that and report back any issues. It works fine for
me and my only complaint is that it is a DKMS.

Or continue using a distro kernel that has the driver built in.

As the thread linked above covers, given that upstream kernel does
have the rtw89_8852be driver in it, it will eventually come to
Debian, though possibly in a bookworm-backports kernel untilDebian
13 (trixie) is released.

Thanks,
Andy

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