Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

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chiguy1256
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Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/05 13:48:33

Are there firmware updates available for Realteck Wireless Adapter RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter? The reason why I ask is I installed CentOS on my laptop yesterday, but the wireless signal is weak. I have tried other distros and have not experienced this issue. I have attached a hardware report. Please advise. Thanks.

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by mashiro2004 » 2019/01/05 13:57:04

Hi,
have you tried to install drivers from elrepo??

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/05 23:09:33

I have added the repository and ran yum -y update && yum -y upgrade. No packages to install. How can I find out if there is an updated driver for it in Linux? Thanks.

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/06 00:03:03

I have also added the GIT repository.

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/06 00:34:10

I have downloaded the driver from GIT. I get the error below when I run the make command. Please advise. Thanks.

make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64/build M=/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64'
arch/x86/Makefile:96: stack-protector enabled but compiler support broken
arch/x86/Makefile:166: *** CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, but not supported by the compiler. Compiler update recommended.. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/06 00:49:47

I have updated gcc and reran make again and get the errors below.

In file included from /home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:26:0:
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/wifi.h:43:2: error: #error "This branch is abandoned. Please do not use. As an alternative, 'git checkout origin/extended -b extended'"
#error "This branch is abandoned. Please do not use. As an alternative, 'git checkout origin/extended -b extended'"

home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/wifi.h:1342:40: error: ‘IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS’ undeclared here (not in a function)
struct ieee80211_supported_band bands[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS];
^
In file included from /home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:33:0:
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/pci.h:348:1: error: redefinition of ‘pci_zalloc_consistent’
pci_zalloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *hwdev, size_t size,

/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c: In function ‘_rtl_init_mac80211’:
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:508:12: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘long unsigned int[1]’ from type ‘int’
hw->flags = IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM |
^
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:521:13: error: invalid operands to binary | (have ‘long unsigned int[1]’ and ‘int’)
hw->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS |
^
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:574:21: error: request for member ‘flags’ in something not a structure or union
hw->wiphy->wowlan.flags = WIPHY_WOWLAN_MAGIC_PKT;
^
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:576:21: error: request for member ‘n_patterns’ in something not a structure or union
hw->wiphy->wowlan.n_patterns =
^
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:578:21: error: request for member ‘pattern_min_len’ in something not a structure or union
hw->wiphy->wowlan.pattern_min_len =
^
/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.c:580:21: error: request for member ‘pattern_max_len’ in something not a structure or union
hw->wiphy->wowlan.pattern_max_len =
^
make[2]: *** [/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex/base.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/brian/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by mashiro2004 » 2019/01/06 10:03:37

Hi, Try this:

rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
rpm -Uvh https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7 ... noarch.rpm

yum install kmod-rtl8723be

Bye

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/06 19:56:28

I tried as you suggested and I get "No package kmod-rtl8723be available."

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by chiguy1256 » 2019/01/06 20:55:51

I tried to follow along a Youtube video. I cloned the github repository into /opt/rtlwifi_new. Everything seems to be there, but I get some errors when I try to execute make && make install. This is very frustrating. :(

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Re: Firmware Update for Realtek Wireless Adapter

Post by mashiro2004 » 2019/01/07 11:59:48

chiguy1256 wrote:
2019/01/06 20:55:51
I tried to follow along a Youtube video. I cloned the github repository into /opt/rtlwifi_new. Everything seems to be there, but I get some errors when I try to execute make && make install. This is very frustrating. :(

yum install ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm5/linux-elr ... x86_64.rpm

or try this:

http://discoverunix.blogspot.com/2017/0 ... edora.html

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