Larry, Thank you for your reply and filling me on the correct netiquette re: driver mailing lists. The PCI ID I have is 10ec:8723, but the built-in version seems to suffer from the slow data rates, poor signal reception and regular dropouts that many users seems to be experiencing with this chipset (at least going by e.g. the Ubuntu forums). I wanted to try compiling my own module from the Realtek source but I think I need a patch to get that to work in kernel 3.11? But I also wondered if it were worth trying a later kernel to see if any of the regular updates have improved things? Thank you for your help. Chris On 2 January 2014 17:58, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 01/02/2014 03:17 AM, Chris Taylor wrote: >> >> Hi Larry, >> >> Sorry to contact you out of the blue, but I wondered if you could quickly answer >> a question about Linux drivers for the RTL8723 wireless chipset: >> >> Have the native kernel drivers been updated recently, and if so, in which kernel? >> >> (I recently downloaded the latest drivers from the Realtek website, but could >> not get them to compile on a 3.11 kernel.) > > > Chris, > > When you contact the listed author of a driver, it is proper netiquette to Cc the appropriate mailing list. In this case linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx would be correct. > > That driver was added to the 3.8 kernel, and there have been updates in most kernels since. Does the built-in version not work for you? If your PCI ID is 10ec:b723, that device requires a different driver. I am working on it, but it is not yet ready. > > Larry > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
