Request for rtl8723bu driver on Intel NUC in ESR release

[klutchell]

This driver is already present on Generic x86_64 but we don't offer ESR releases for that device type.

We will need to consider the extra space required and whether or not this driver will fit in the rootfs of Intel NUC.

[jellyfish-bot]

[klutchell] This issue has attached support thread https://jel.ly.fish/1709db65-e27d-417f-986f-a448013dfd7d

[klutchell]

Are these modules not already present?

• linux-firmware: Include RTL8723BU firmware files meta-balena#2392

[shawaj]

Just to note, device shows up on USB:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:b720 Realtek 802.11n WLAN Adapter

But in ifconfig / nmcli it does not show, neither in hciconfig or other bluetooth tools.

In dmesg I have:

root@9413ba0:~# dmesg | grep rtl     
[    7.486263] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8723b_fw.bin
[    7.487174] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8723b_config.bin
[    7.487236] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8723b_config.bin failed with error -2

Device (support access enabled) - https://dashboard.balena-cloud.com/devices/9413ba0d6be180083fbbfa5e999df1d3/summary

[klutchell]

It looks like this firmware was added in v2.89.5+rev1 but has not been backported or included in any ESR releases.
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