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Reminders:

1. If your usb wifi adapter is based on a RTL8188GU or RTL8192FU chip, you may need to use the command usb_modeswitch or eject to switch it to "Wifi Mode" first.

2. Before installing this package, make sure your system has the corresponding kernel headers and the package base-devel installed.

3. You have to manually blacklist or remove any conflicting drivers installed except the in-kernel rtl8xxxu driver.

@chowbok

On Manjaro, linux-firmware-realtek is still in unstable/testing, I'll update the dependencies once it goes into stable, thank you for the report! :)

https://manjaristas.org/branch_compare?q=linux-firmware-realtek

Now that the firmware packages have been split up, can this be changed so that it only lists linux-firmware-realtek as a dependency?

Reminders:

1. If your usb wifi adapter is based on a RTL8188GU or RTL8192FU chip, you may need to use the command usb_modeswitch or eject to switch it to "Wifi Mode" first.

2. Before installing this package, make sure your system has the corresponding kernel headers and the package base-devel installed.

3. You have to manually blacklist or remove any conflicting drivers installed except the in-kernel rtl8xxxu driver.

usb_modeswitch added as an optional dependency. I didn't notice this before, thanks for the suggestions.

I recently had problems getting my RTL8188GU wireless USB adapter working using the rtl8xxxu-dkms-git package from the AUR. After some research, I found that the usb_modeswitch package is needed to change the adapter's mode to wireless mode. After installing this package, the adapter worked correctly.

I suggest that the usb_modeswitch package be added as a dependency/optional of the package to ensure users can get the adapter to work properly.

Thanks.

This is just a guess, but I'm pretty sure the „AP” firmware (array_mp_8710b_fw_ap, array_mp_8192f_fw_ap, etc) is meant for plastic boxes -- routers, access points, that sort of thing. The „NIC” firmware is the one we need for USB devices, even when running in AP mode.

Hi,

I tested it with RTL8188GU/RTL8192FU and it did works.

But I'm a little confused that why it can work without an ap firmware?

ap firmware in the vendor driver are not needed for rtl8xxxu?

Thanks again for making this driver, you saved the rtl8188gu users like me!

If you wish to test AP mode with RTL8188GU, edit rtl8xxxu_8710b.c and add two lines in the struct at the end:

.supports_ap = 1,
.max_macid_num = 16,

I believe it is that simple to get the same level of support for AP mode that the RTL8188FU has.

It's the same for RTL8723BU, RTL8192EU, and RTL8192FU, except those chips can handle more stations. You can use max_macid_num = 128 for those three.

It's not as simple for the older RTL8723AU, RTL8192CU/RTL8188CU, and RTL8188EU. Those need more work.

Doesn't support AP mode for rtl8188gu, unfortunately.

function pkgver() added, thank you.