Thanks everyone for the replies. The setting I was missing in the kernel was that I need to have PCI enabled. I'm not sure why the backports menuconfig said PCI [=y], since it was not enabled in the kernel, but once I enabled it backports built the wifi driver correctly. Thanks again for the help! Marlon On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 09:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 13:55 -0700, Marlon Smith wrote: > > > > > Hey Luca, thanks for the reply! The requirements in the backports > > 4.14 > > menuconfig are listed as follows: > > > > Depends on: WLAN [=y] && WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK [=y] && RTL_CARDS [=m] > > && > > m && BP_MODULES [=y] && PCI [=y] > > > > I can find the symbol WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK in the backports 4.14 > > menuconfig but not in the 3.14 kernel's menuconfig. Does this mean > > I > > can't use the driver with this kernel? > No, actually the symbol is enabled? See the [=y] above. > > The above looks like it is actually enabled though, so something else > must be going on? > > johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in