[elrepo] RTL8723be - driver

[Phil Perry]

On 16/09/14 20:57, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Konrad Wawryn <konrad.wawryn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> this is my first post, so I would like to address warm welcome to everyone.
>>
>> Since two weeks I have new laptop with Wireless Rtl8723be. Unfortunately it
>> doesnt work as expected. I tried already to compile rtl drivers but it seems
>> that they are not stable on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian.
>>
>> I decided to install Centos/Red Hat. Could You please tell me which kernel
>> supporting this chipset ? I heard that 3.15 and higher. Could You please
>> suggest me which kernel I need to deploy to be able to use CentOS Desktop
>> with Wifi ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for Your support
>>
>> Konrad
> 
> The rtl8723be driver is available in the current kernel-ml (3.16.2-1.el7.elrepo
> 
> or 3.16.2-1.el6.elrepo). So, try installing it and see if that works.
> 
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
> 
> Akemi

Further to this, the driver will also require firmware to be installed:

[quote]
firmware:       rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin
[/quote]

You will need to manually download
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin
and place it in the /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ directory (you'll need to
create this directory).