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Bug 430928

Summary: net-wireless/rtl8712-firmware: new ebuild
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: jannis <kripton>
Component: New packagesAssignee: 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.