KAMiKAZOW wrote about 1 year ago

Since revision 67 wifi no longer works for me on TW. I downgraded to revision 66 and it works again.

Sauerland wrote about 1 year ago

Here is no Tumbleweed build......... Only here and for 64 bit: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:Sauerland:hardware

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KAMiKAZOW wrote about 1 year ago

Well, I commented here because this is the root package with specific revisions.

Yesterday's change builds for TW but does not work.

Sauerland wrote about 1 year ago

will test it at the end of week with my laptop, but now it is running fine with Leap 15.1

lupus47 wrote 10 months ago

I recently invested in a new Laptop HP 15-da0xxx, on which I installed openSUSE Leap 15.1 (double boot with Windows 10). Everything is working except WiFi, which seems to be a problem with the Realtek RTL8821CE chip, which provides both Bluetooth and Wlan service. The [F12] function key only switches Bluetooth on and off. Wlan never appears in the Network Manager menu. My installation with ixni -zSMN is:

System: Host: corrimal Kernel: 5.3.4-1-default x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 10 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.1 Machine: Device: laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-da0xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Mobo: HP model: 84A6 v: 80.28 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.04 date: 08/02/2018 Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169 Card-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter

Note: no driver for Card-2

Subsequently I went to https://software.opensuse.org/package/rtl8821ce and downloaded git20190720 (rtl8821ce-git20190720-lp151.7.6.src.rpm) from home:Sauerland, which is this page. I installed this with: zypper update zypper si rtl8821ce-git20190720-lp151.7.6.src.rpm This installed most of the above sources at /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and rtl8821ce.spec at /usr/src/packages/SPECS (except rtl8821ce.changes, which seems to be only 2018 change information) I read somewhere that when you install a source package with zypper si, only the source code is added to the system. So far so good.

I then unpacked rtl8821ce-git20190720.tar.gz in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES with: tar -xvzf rtl8821ce-git20190720.tar.gz

The README.md file from that tar ball states:

This repository hosts the code for the ArchLinux AUR Package. It's targetting Linux > 4.14 and is being developed for ArchLinux and Ubuntu 18.10. No support will be provided for other Linux distributions or Linux Kernel versions outside of that range.

I presume you (Sauerland) provided the 5 patch files, to adapt the code/scripts to install on Linux 15.1 with Linux > 5.3.4-1-default.

To satisfy requirements I have installed DKMS, bc, kernel-syms, kmod-compat (already there) and libelf-devel with YAST.

I cannot find any instructions on how to build and install the rtl8821ce driver correctly anywhere. (A short README with this package would really help).

I am not game to run dkms.sh or make, because they both refer to directories and versions which are not there and do not line up with your versions. Although I have a lot of experience with SUSE linux (loyal user since 1995) and with Makefiles and support my own compiler development (immediateC.net), I have not dealt much with patch files. I recently installed a TW package (CURSES) by mistake and broke Leap 15.1 - nothing worked any more. I could do an update to Leap 15.1 from the original USB - took about an hour and everything was restored. Since then I am loath to install kernel modules/drivers without specific and clear instructions.

Your help will be much appreciated, John Wulff - Bowen Mountain/Australia

PS: Meine Grossmutter ist aus Dirkingen bei Drolshagen im Sauerland - kleine Welt.

Sauerland wrote 10 months ago

Please ask in the openSUSE Forum, Leap 15.1 has kernel 4.12 and I do not know, if the Module is working with kernel 5.3 from Tumbleweed which you have installed

official (English and German) openSUSE forum: https://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php Login with Username and Password as done here in the OBS.

German openSUSE forum: https://www.opensuse-forum.de https://linux-club.de/forum/index.php

Sauerland wrote 10 months ago

You can use your account in the German https://www.opensuse-forum.de , I am mostly activ on weekend.