realtek 8723BS wifi driver

[Jocky Wilson]

For info, and maybe useful for other baytrail tablet users, I could finally get wifi to work on my voyo a1 mini baytrail tablet. There is a realtek 8723BS sdio wifi&bt chip inside. The wifi works fine with the driver found here:

https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs

With the current version I finally could wifi to work. Unfortunately BT does still not work. I am using kernel 3.18.2 with android-x86 kitkat.  

[joe cooper]

I got a tablet with 8723bs too. I will be very grateful if you could give me your image files beacuse i can't compile the kernel by myself.so far.

I'm sorry my English isn't very good.(p.s. I think there are other people that need it too.)

在 2015年1月21日星期三 UTC+8下午11:43:24，Jocky Wilson写道：

[Jocky Wilson]

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwLKAtSVab_qYmtpZ19kMUJ1aGs/view?usp=sharing

Format a usb pen drive, copy the content of the rar to it and boot your tablet from it (make sure to set secure boot off)

What kind of tablet is that?

[joe cooper]

thank you very much, by the way my tablet is Cube iwork8(z3735d  2g ram 32g emmc).

在 2015年1月21日星期三 UTC+8下午11:43:24，Jocky Wilson写道：

For info, and maybe useful for other baytrail tablet users, I could finally get wifi to work on my voyo a1 mini baytrail tablet. There is a realtek 8723BS sdio wifi&bt chip inside. The wifi works fine with the driver found here:

[Carbon Jiao]

Thanks for your release. 

Your image can boot in my Tablet, while power management doesn't work: no battery information and no charger found...

Could you help to share your kernel config and path set base on android-x86 official kernel? 

[joe cooper]

I just test your release on my tablet, and wifi works fine. thank you.

在 2015年1月21日星期三 UTC+8下午11:43:24，Jocky Wilson写道：

For info, and maybe useful for other baytrail tablet users, I could finally get wifi to work on my voyo a1 mini baytrail tablet. There is a realtek 8723BS sdio wifi&bt chip inside. The wifi works fine with the driver found here:

[Carbon Jiao]

I found the Bluetooth driver for RTL8723AE and RTL8723AU, maybe it can make SDIO RTL8723BS Combo card runs ...

[Jocky Wilson]

There are different 8723 cards. Very little chance the AE and AU drivers work for BS, but feel free to try it out.

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[André Vitor]

8723AE and 8723AU are usb dongles. This driver won't work for 8723BS.

[tdarren]

I've got a baytrail tablet with the 8723bs WiFi chip. How do I compile it for android x86?

[Сергей Трофимов]

пятница, 23 января 2015 г., 0:39:12 UTC+3 пользователь Jocky Wilson написал:

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwLKAtSVab_qYmtpZ19kMUJ1aGs/view?usp=sharing

Format a usb pen drive, copy the content of the rar to it and boot your tablet from it (make sure to set secure boot off)

What kind of tablet is that?

Hello.
Thank you very much for your work.
This is the only android x86, which employs video acceleration, sound and wifi on my Onda V975w.
Compile, please touchscreen driver and, if possible, the driver of the accelerometer.
Links to the source code is on this page - https://wiki.gnome.org/BastienNocera/Ondav975w
Sorry for my bad English.

[Jocky Wilson]

Interesting that sound works on your Onda, it doesn't on my Voyo A1 mini and Thinkpad Tablet 8. In the next few days I will sync the repo and add those drivers (if not in the repo already) and put the image on google drive.

/JockyW

[Sammyboy1976]

четверг, 26 февраля 2015 г., 16:34:javascript:;18 UTC+3 пользователь Jocky Wilson написал:

> Interesting that sound works on your Onda, it doesn't on my Voyo A1 mini and Thinkpad Tablet 8. In the next few days I will sync the repo and add those drivers (if not in the repo already) and put the image on google drive.
>
> /JockyW

On my PIPO W3 tablet this build runs wifi, touch, sound, but not orientation sensor. Also can you add GAPPS to your next build? Thanx in advance

[Greg McGee]

That chip is also used on the fine Microcenter BayTrail tablets, TW100,700,800,801

Note they have a 32-bit EFI bios.

[Сергей Трофимов]

If you is not difficult, compile the driver touchscreen - https://wiki.gnome.org/BastienNocera/Ondav975w
I will establish his own.

Sorry for my bad English.

четверг, 26 февраля 2015 г., 16:34:18 UTC+3 пользователь Jocky Wilson написал:

[Jocky Wilson]

Hi, I will add that driver and build a new image with GAPPS now.

Could you please provide your DSDT dump as I requested in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/aGLBaYUIw3Y

/JockyW

[Сергей Трофимов]

Hi, i posted in that topic my dsdt.dat

Sorry for my bad English.

четверг, 5 марта 2015 г., 13:53:20 UTC+3 пользователь Jocky Wilson написал:

[Jocky Wilson]

You can try this image: android-x86-kitkat-gapps-rtl8723bs-kernel_3.18.8-mesa10.4.2.rar and download it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwLKAtSVab_qamoyZG9GdzZFbVU/view?usp=sharing

Please report what works and what not. Here's a short checklist: graphics, hdmi, adjust brightness, internal emmc,sd card reader, volume/power buttons, sound, power off/reboot, suspend, battery, wifi, bluetooth, rear camera, front camera, accelerometer (for auto screen orientation), touchscreen.

Here is my report for the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 8:

graphics: yes

hdmi: not yet tested

brightness: yes 

internal emmc: mounted, but not yet tested

sd card reader: not yet tested

volume/power buttons: yes

sound: no
power off/reboot: yes

suspend: not really tested, but screen switches off

battery: no

wifi: no (must wait for broadcom to release brcmfmac43241b5-sdio b5 firmware)

bluetooth: no

rear cam: no

front cam: no

accelerometer: no

touchscreen: yes

I have got some ideas to get a few peripherals to work on baytrail tablets. Stay tuned for updates.

[Povilas Staniulis]

You should create a separate topic for this.

I've tested my T100TA with your image:

Graphics: yes, and is very responsive

HDMI: untested, don't have the adapter cable

Brightness: no (there was a patch for this)

Internal eMMC: detected fine, didn't test mounting

SD: detected fine, didn't test

Volume/Power buttons: Power button works, Volume buttons don't

Sound: yes

Suspend: no, the screen just turns black, but does not turn off (screen turn off works in my old Android x86 build, perhaps a kernel config change is needed)

Battery: yes (didn't try charging, but the indicator is shown)

Wifi: yes

Bluetooth: no (there's a way to get it to work, at least in Ubuntu, but I didn't try it)

Camera: no (needs driver)

Accelerometer: no (and I don't understand why, as it's detected by the system, /sys/bus/iio/devices)

Touchscreen: yes

[Jocky Wilson]

Thank you Povilas. So much more is working on your T100TA as compared to my Lenovo.

Yes, I will create a new topic "Getting Android-x86 to work on Baytrail platform". We will get there.

/JockyW

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[Сергей Трофимов]

Here is my report for the Onda V975i(V975w):

graphics: yes

hdmi: not tested

brightness: yes 

internal emmc: no

sd card reader: no

volume/power buttons: yes

sound: yes
power off/reboot: yes

suspend: not really tested, but screen switches off

battery: no

wifi: yes

[Сергей Трофимов]

HDMI is work.

This video demonstrates the dual boot between Windows 8.1 and Android x86 on the tablet Onda V975i (V975w) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTk2zx3_enk

[Dmitriy Stepanov]

My report for the Onda V975w V3:

graphics: yes
hdmi: not tested
brightness: yes
internal emmc: no
sd card reader: no
volume/power buttons: yes

sound: no
power off/reboot: yes

suspend: not, screen don't turn off

[Andrew Stubbs]

My results for the Toshiba WT10-A has the same results

Has anyone managed to install intel sst audio device (wdm) drivers. I can't seem to locate the drivers for any linux distro.

graphics: yes

hdmi: not yet tested

brightness: yes 

internal emmc: No

sd card reader: No

volume/power buttons: yes

sound: no
power off/reboot: yes

suspend: Yes

battery: no

wifi: Yes

bluetooth: no

rear cam: no

front cam: no

accelerometer: no

touchscreen: yes

intel sst audio device

[Сергей Трофимов]

Please tell me you have compiled the driver for the accelerometer?
You include it in your latest build?
Source code here - https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy
Can tell how to enable microsd reader and the battery indicator?

Sorry for my bad English.

пятница, 6 марта 2015 г., 5:00:37 UTC+3 пользователь Jocky Wilson написал:

[Dom Buchstaller]

My results for the Acer Aspire Switch 10

graphics: yes
hdmi: not yet tested

brightness: no
internal emmc: not yet tested

sd card reader: not yet tested

volume/power buttons: yes
sound: no
power off/reboot: yes

suspend: no
battery: yes
wifi: Yes
bluetooth: not yet tested

rear cam: no
front cam: no
accelerometer: no
touchscreen: yes

keyboard: no

[Сергей Трофимов]

The new build will be?
Do not forget to enable Ondemand. The performance is not suitable for tablets, as the battery runs out quickly.

If the compilation of the new image does not move, then lay out, please kernel source code and config file for free access.

пятница, 6 марта 2015 г., 5:00:37 UTC+3 пользователь Jocky Wilson написал:

[Greg McGee]

There's a version of that Onda that has the rtl 8723bs that runs 4.4.2 with BT working.

Trying to track down online source has been futile.

Perhaps as an Onda owner customer service would help you?

[Strut Shot]

Jocky Wilson <jockyw2001@...> writes:

>
>
> For info, and maybe useful for other baytrail tablet users, I could finally

finally

finally get wifi to work on my voyo a1 mini baytrail tablet. There is a realte

realtek

realtek 8723BS sdio wifi&bt chip inside. The wifi works fine with the drive

driver

driver found here:https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs
>
>
> With the current version I finally could wifi to work. Unfortunately BT d

does

does still not work. I am using kernel 3.18.2 with android-x86 kitkat.  
>
>
>
>

would it be possible for you to make an image for the 5.0.2 release
with
this driver?i would be very grateful if you could.
i am using an acer switch 10,
and will be testing this current build
switch 10,and will be testing
this current build shortly.will report back
my findings.

[An Dy]

Just wanted to share my findings when running your provided image with Kernel 3.18.2.

Running your build on a Teclast X98 Air 3G (Intel 3736F), Dual Boot
Build version (on back): C9J8

The Wifi speed on this device on Android is pretty bad: On the same network I'm getting 5 times (!) the speed with a Nexus 5 (that is, 5 MBit on Nexus 5, 0.5-0.9 MBit on the Teclast).

The Wifi speed also is bad on the ROMs Teclast provided so far. Booting up into Windows is a totally different world: Here the Wifi speed is very good, no problems at all so far. So it seems to be a Android-only issue here.

Your build:

graphics: yes
hdmi: not tested
brightness: yes

internal emmc: yes
sd card reader: yes
volume/power buttons: yes
sound: not tested

power off/reboot: yes
suspend: not, screen don't turn off
battery: no
wifi: yes

bluetooth: no
rear cam: no
front cam: no
accelerometer: no

touchscreen: no

[Jeevan Ghadge]

Hi,
Same results for me on Switch 10 SW5-12.
What needs to be done to help you guys build support for the not-working pieces?
I'll do the obvious one(Donate) tonight. But other than that, is there anything we non-technical users can do to get this working?

[youling 257]

how to solve this problem ? 4.0.9 kernel，4.1.15 kernel，4.4 kernel，no rtl8723bs

[Mario Holzinger]

RTL8723BS driver merged and working in

https://github.com/meijjaa/linux/tree/android

Tested a self compiled build yesturday with Marshmallow sources on my TrekStor 7.0 Tablet

[youling 257]

how to do ? i don't konw ，can you share yours kernel and modules?

在 2016年1月12日星期二 UTC+8下午4:47:26，Mario Holzinger写道：

[Nicolò]

hi, can you share the instructions to get this wifi chipset working?

thanks

[Mario Holzinger]

I defenetly know that it was working on my side, but I'm not able to reproduce ist because the Kernel sources has changed in the meanwhile.

As soon as I get it working again, I will inform you (and keep the source code freezed on my Github account :-) )

https://github.com/holzingerm/android-kernel.git

it is based on the work of meiijja but the current sources auto reboots my Tablets.

[Mario Holzinger]

Its working again

I need to clean up a little bit from the mainstream kernel commits. one of the commits between December and January breaks my kernels.

feel free to fork my copy of meijaa's hard kernel development

https://github.com/holzingerm/android-kernel.git 

Use my ts-android branch it is my development branch for a Trekstor Suftab Wintron 7.0 that has a RTL8723BS WiFi adapter integrated

The commit on top of the original kernel commits is a combination (squash) of all meijjaa commits until the Wifi implementation nothing new.

regards

Mario

[youling 257]

i'm very sorry but I can't understand because i'm not a professional on Linux or git，please share kernel and system/lib/modules，firmware

在 2016年1月27日星期三 UTC+8上午2:30:49，Mario Holzinger写道：

[Mario Holzinger]

i will upload the current build

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B43N_UcsJhpjRnJORHJBbmFSMTA&usp=sharing

you can extract all you like from it. give it a few minutes and come back to look for the android_x86.img file

[Nicolò]

Thanks Mario. but i don't understand why wifi is not working on my lenovo miix 3 (it has a RTL8723BS WiFi adapter too)

[Greg McGee]

Did you try loading the driver manually?

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[Mario Holzinger]

OK, maybe it is to complicated for the moment.

May I ask for those who had problems with WiFi to share som information about there android-x86 image they use?

Please open a terminal and type:

uname -r

to get the current kernel version

than pleas check if the module is already loaded

lsmod

 search for the module called r8728bs
if it is listed than the module is already loaded, if not I will try to make the model for you kernel version and upload it.

The only necessary information therefore would be the used kernel version

BTW:

RTL8723BS is a WiFi/Bluetooth module, did someone get the bluetooth working?

mine can't be activated in android so if I find some time I need to search what causes the issue (need to check also on ubuntu if BT is working there)

[Mario Holzinger]

OK, checked Ubuntu.

no Bluetooth device found, Wifi is working.

so maybe the complete kernel module do not cover bluetooth functionality at the moment. :-(

[Nicolò]

thanks Mario. i'm going to use your trekstore img file and check the module and the kernel version. on my miix 3

[Nicolò]

Mario i'm using the img you published on google drive

uname - r

4.0.9-android-x86_64+

lsmod 

r8723bs 659713 0 - Live

but if i use

netcfg wlan0 up

i get "operation non permitted" and on the android wifi configuration is all stuck on "turning wifi on"

thanks

Nicolò

[Mario Holzinger]

find here the kernel module for 4.0.9-androis-x86_64+

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B43N_UcsJhpjWXI4c0VwZXZZQlU

place it (replace if exist) in

/lib/modules/4.0.9-android-x86_64+/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/