RTL8723BS driver doesn't work for,me but I can help testing

[Tobias Baumann]

Hello Community

I was referred to you by Martin. I have an older Android TV box that
runs for over 3 years with Armbian Linux (Debian Jessie Headless Kernel
3.10.99). I'm looking forward to the new kernels and I'm glad that older
hardware is still supported.
Together with Oleg(balbes150) and Martin(xdarklight) I am testing the
new kernel 5.x for ARM ( Amlogic S812 / Meson8m2 ) . Martin has written
a patch for the SDIO controller in the last days so that also Wifi
module and MMC are recognized. I could now successfully load the driver
module RTLWIFI from the kernel. But unfortunately the card is only
listed on the desktop as "not ready" or in the terminal (iwlist) as "no
scan result". In the dmesg/lsmod RTLWIFI->RTL8723bs is loaded and the
module is loaded with version v4.3.5.5_12290.20140916_BTCOEX20140507-4E40 .


I would like to ask you to check the driver because even in kernel
3.10.99 a newer version (v4.3.16_13854.20150410_BTCOEX20150119-5844) is
loaded and also at github are hard kernels ( version 2017 Kernel 4.9>)
and ap17 and thirdyouth (v5.2.17.1_26955.20180307_COEX20180201-6f52).
More recent ones can also be found - these have already been
successfully tested with Debian 10. i hope that this may solve the
problem with my Linux box.

I would appreciate feedback on this request or information about
debugging . My Linux box is also available for testing purposes

Kindly
Tobias Baumann (RaptorSDS)



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