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diferenças no campo: fabricante
Realtek-Semiconductor-Co.-Ltd.
diferenças no campo: nome do modelo
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
diferenças no campo: outros possíveis nomes do dispositivo
RTL8723BE
diferenças no campo: código VendorID:ProductID do dispositivo
10ec:b723
diferenças no campo: ano de comercialização
not-specified
diferenças no campo: interface
mini-PCI-E
diferenças no campo: distribuição GNU/Linux usada para teste
parabola , trisquel_7_0
diferenças no campo: testado com o seguinte kernel livre
diferenças no campo: funciona com software livre?
no
diferenças no campo: driver livre utilizado
rtl8723be
diferenças no campo: Descrição
[p]A bit of nuance for this device,[/p]
[i]> e.g. '.alt_fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin"' then wifi on this device will correctly work[/i]
[p]Some cards can ship non-free firmware embedded, using the actual firmware name required by the driver will give the same result as actually providing the firmware.[/p]
[p]Due to policies on firmware loading, [b]FSFLA's linux-libre[/b] will reject the load of any non-free firmware even provided by the device, on the other hand, Trisquel's kernel policy is to [u]not recommend nor advertise it's use[/u] while hands the user the responsibility and technical labor to add load certain firmware if the user chooses to[1].[/p]
[p]If this card does not work while running a copy of the linux-libre kernel as [u]as distributed by the FSFLA[2], FSFLA[/u][2], this card should be marked as requiring non-free firmware.[/p]
[p]While deciding if a firmware shipped via the ROM device, can be seen as free or non-free due the impossibility to be changed is part of a broader discussion and not necessary for this particular device.[/p]
[p]The h-node mailing list [3] or linux-libre mailing list[4], would make a good place for such discussion.[/p]
[p][1] [a]https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/blob/nabia/helpers/DATA/linux/silent-accept-firmware.patch#L1[/a][/p]
[p][2] [a]http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/[/a][/p]
[p][3] [a]https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/h-source-users[/a][/p]
[p][4] [a]http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre[/a][/p]
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[p]Worked on Parabola/Linux-libre, module was loaded without the firmware blob and it just worked. In the module source the path to firmware binary can be dummy. It only takes a bit longer to connect/search. Needs adaptation in source.[/p]
[p]Previous description about Trisquel:
Non-free firmware is required.[/p]
More info:
[list]
[*] https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x[/*]
[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL8723AE[/*]
[/list]
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