WARNING: No feed for package 'rtl8821ce-firmware' found

[dausruddin]

Hi. After reading an interesting conversation in jayanta525/rk3328-rock-pi-e#1, I wanted to try it for my Nanopi R2S.

But I am getting this warning

WARNING: No feed for package 'rtl8821ce-firmware' found

Do I need rtl8821ce-firmware? If yes, where do I get them?
I am just a casual user trying to build my own firmware, so treat me as a newbie :)

Thanks!

[dausruddin]

Oh, also I am using openwrt latest snapshot.

[dausruddin]

So I removed the dependencies and it builds successfully. But 8811CU device won't work.

[Pix13]

Hi @dausruddin, for the missing firmware, you will need to add these two commits/patches to your tree: Pix13/rk3328-rock-pi-e@ef2915d and Pix13/rk3328-rock-pi-e@4026129

This will take care of having thr rtw88-usb package available in your OpenWRT tree. As for the driver itself, it does not work yet :)

Please follow my issue here: ulli-kroll/rtw88-usb#12 and more importantly, the branch backports ( https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtw88-usb/tree/backports ) which is the one that will/should work on OpenWRT

[dausruddin]

Oh okay, thanks. Seems that I won't be able to do anything as it is out of my capability.

Anyway, I want to mention that https://github.com/immortalwrt/immortalwrt is working fine, at least on my friend's R2S. He also tried https://github.com/quintus-lab/OpenWRT-R2S-R4S which can be seen pulling RTL8821CU driver source from immortalwrt repo, and got them working.

[Pix13]

Well i got the old driver working too, but it only works as a client wifi, not in access point ( because of the missing newest mac80211 api). I have hope, i'm badgering the new rt88-usb developper to have the driver working :)

[dausruddin]

I'll keep an eye then. Thanks!