Re: RTL8812/8821 network card driver
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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 04:29:35AM -0700, Wei-Shun Lo wrote:
> Dear Debian,
>
> Is it possible to include below driver in the kernel for network installation?
> Many cards are using this driver.
>
> https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
A couple of things:
- this list is not "Debian". It's just the Debian User's mailing
list. Debian users help each other (sometimes experts lurk here
and help us all, which is very nice of them, but nobody is paid
or forced to do that!)
- if you want to get a hardware driver "in", the best path is,
of course the kernel. This way, it'll find its way into all
Linux distributions, not only Debian. That said, sometimes
distributions carry a set of patches to the "official" or
"vanilla" kernel, but most try to keep those patches to a
minimum: it's a lot of work to maintain that, and this takes
energy away to do other important things.
- the mailing list for this kind of questions is most probably
the Debian kernel mailing list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/
There are really nice people there, but please be nice to
them. They are doing an awesome work without us paying them
to do so. Do your homework first:
(a) do newer versions of the Linux kernel carry this driver
already?
(b) search the mailing list archives. Perhaps there's already
a discussion about this on-going.
Cheers
- -- tomás
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