Bug 430928

Summary:	net-wireless/rtl8712-firmware: new ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	jannis <kripton>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	EBUILD
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-870093.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	rtl8712-firmware-1.ebuild

Description jannis 2012-08-11 13:24:53 UTC

Created attachment 321002 [details]
rtl8712-firmware-1.ebuild

As noted at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7112398.html Gentoo misses the firmware-package for devices using the r8712u-driver in the staging-area of the mainline linux-sources (and also gentoo-sources).
Supported devices are listed here:
http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#r8712u

I hacked together (not a beauty) an ebuild that fetches the binary from the linux-firmware git-tree (downloaded via HTTP, so not a git live-ebuild).

Comment 1 jannis 2012-08-11 13:25:47 UTC

add URL and KEYWORD

Comment 2 jannis 2020-09-30 12:12:43 UTC

The file is now included in sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20200918, closing.