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Bug#828817: marked as done (firmware-realtek: Need support for Realtek Wifi card rtl8723bs)

Your message dated Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:47:53 +0200
with message-id <1467139673.2551.87.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Bug#828817: firmware-realtek: Need support for Realtek Wifi card rtl8723bs
has caused the Debian Bug report #828817,
regarding firmware-realtek: Need support for Realtek Wifi card rtl8723bs
to be marked as done.

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Package: firmware-realtek
Version: 20160110-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

This device is appearing in some OEM machines, but driver is not yet available upstream.
I have found this https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs thats works perfect but this must be by default.

WORKAROUND: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic git
git clone https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723as.git
cd rtl8723as
make
sudo make install
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe r8723bs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

firmware-realtek depends on no packages.

firmware-realtek recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-realtek suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.125

-- no debconf information

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This is not a bug in the firmware-realtek package.

Additionally, we won't package random drivers from Github; new drivers
need to be submitted to the (upstream) Linux kernel maintainers.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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