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[SOLVED] Beowulf and Realtek rtl8822be wifi firmware issue

I've found an issue with Realtek 8822 WiFi card after upgrading to Beowulf. It seems like firmware changed location because in /lib/firmware are:

/lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtl8822b_config.bin
/lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtl8822b_fw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtl8822cu_fw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8822befw.bin

but /lib/firmware/rtw88 does not exist:

dmesg | grep 8822
[   13.187885] rtw_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin (-2)
[   13.187889] rtw_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin failed with error -2

lspci
01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter

lshw -C network
  *-network DISABLED        
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 0e
       serial: 
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes
       resources: irq:72 ioport:3400(size=256) memory:c0814000-c0814fff memory:c0800000-c0803fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 10
       serial: 
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 duplex=full firmware=rtl8168g-3_0.0.1 04/23/13 ip=192.168.88.87 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:73 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:c0704000-c0704fff memory:c0700000-c0703fff

dpkg --get-selections | grep firmware
firmware-linux-free				install
firmware-realtek				install

Last edited by uther (2020-02-17 16:13:06)

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Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf and Realtek rtl8822be wifi firmware issue

I found this but the referenced bug seems to apply to kernel >5.0. I presume you're using the 4.19 LTS branch with beowulf?

Just to be sure can we see

uname -a
sudo dmesg | grep firmware
lspci -knn | grep -A2 WiFi
ip link

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Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf and Realtek rtl8822be wifi firmware issue

Did /lib/firmware/rtw88 exist ascii ?

uther

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Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf and Realtek rtl8822be wifi firmware issue

I found this but the referenced bug seems to apply to kernel >5.0. I presume you're using the 4.19 LTS branch with beowulf?

Sh*t, I forgot to mention. I'm on 5.4.0-0.

uname -a
Linux user 5.4.0-0.bpo.2-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 5.4.8-1~bpo10+1 (2020-01-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

dmesg | grep firmware 
[   13.187885] rtw_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin (-2)
[   13.187887] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[   13.187889] rtw_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin failed with error -2
[   13.187892] rtw_pci 0000:02:00.0: failed to request firmware
[   13.204310] rtw_pci 0000:02:00.0: failed to load firmware
[   28.347329] r8169 0000:05:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw

lspci -knn | grep -A2 WiFi
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter [10ec:b822]
	Subsystem: Lenovo RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter [17aa:b023]
	Kernel modules: rtwpci

ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether e8:6a:54:64:52:43 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether e8:6a:54:64:52:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Did /lib/firmware/rtw88 exist ascii ?

Unfortunately I've migrated to Beowulf on all my machines. Maybe someone else can tell. I assume yes, because before migration WiFi worked.

Last edited by uther (2020-02-17 15:39:59)

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Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf and Realtek rtl8822be wifi firmware issue

I'm on 5.4.0-0

Either switch to the non-backports kernel or build a new module from Larry Finger's github site.

The Ubuntu kernels are fixed now but the twats haven't passed it upstream. As usual.

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uther

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Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf and Realtek rtl8822be wifi firmware issue

build a new module from Larry Finger's github site.

That solved the issue.

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