NOTE: this page is for archival only, see the note at the end of the page.

Realtek 802.11n drivers

rtlwifi

staging drivers

  • r8192e_pci is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192E devices.

  • r8712u is a USB driver for RTL8712U/RTL8192SU devices, it's going to be replaced by r92su.

  • r8192u_usb is a USB driver for RTL8192U devices.

  • r8192du is a USB driver for RTL8192DU devices. (WIP) : http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8192du

  • r8723au is a USB driver for RTL8723AU devices. (WIP) : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=139606070129567

  • r8188eu is a USB driver for RTL8188EU devices.

They are included in the staging tree at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/tree/drivers/staging and they are NOT supported by linux-wireless developers or mailing list. Instead ask for support in http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel . Maintainers are Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>.

Unsupported Chips

Hardware Donations

If you get an unsupported device, you can donate it to the driver maintainer. For more info ask Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>.

Firmware

The firmware for those devices can be downloaded from: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git


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