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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/RTL8191EU/RTL8192EU/RTL8188EU/RTL8188RU) (4.3+), for other chips WIP: git-tree
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.
- 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.
