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Realtek 802.11n drivers

mac80211 based

  • rtl8192ce is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192CE/RTL8188CE devices.
  • rtl8192cu is a USB driver for RTL8192CU/RTL8188CU devices. It's going to be replaced by rtl8xxxu.
  • rtl8192de is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192DE/RTL8188DE devices.
  • rtl8192se is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192SE/RTL8191SE devices.
  • rtl8723ae is a PCI-E driver for RTL8723AE devices.
  • rtl8188ee is a PCI-E driver for RTL8188EE devices.
  • rtl8723be is a PCI-E driver for RTL8723BE devices (3.15+).
  • rtl8192su is a USB driver for RTL8188SU/RTL8191SU/RTL8192SU devices. (WIP : http://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su )
  • rtl8821ae is a PCI-E driver for RTL8821AE devices (3.16+).
  • rtl8192ee is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192EE devices (3.16+).
  • rtl8xxxu is a multi-driver for USB devices(RTL8723AU/RTL8723BU) (4.3+).

staging drivers

  • r8192e_pci is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192E devices.
  • r8190_pci is a PCI driver for RTL8190P devices (WIP : http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8190p )
  • r8723bs is a SDIO/SPI driver for RTL8723A/B devices (WIP : https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bs)
  • r8712u is a USB driver for RTL8712U/RTL8192SU devices. It's going to be replaced by rtl8192su.
  • r8192u_usb is a USB driver for RTL8192U devices. It's going to be replaced by rtl8xxxu.
  • r8188eu is a USB driver for RTL8188EU devices. It's going to be replaced by rtl8xxxu.
  • r8192du is a USB driver for RTL8192DU devices. (WIP : http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8192du ). It's going to be replaced by rtl8xxxu.

They are included in the staging tree at https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/ 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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> and Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>.

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: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

Available devices

See this page for a list of devices that based on the rtl819x chip.

en/users/drivers/rtl819x.1458078912.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016/03/15 21:55 by Xose Vazquez Perez