Bug 1213121 - Network driver not enabling activity indicator on Realtek RTL88x2bu USB Device
Summary: Network driver not enabling activity indicator on Realtek RTL88x2bu USB Device
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: x86-64 openSUSE Tumbleweed
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2023-07-07 04:25 UTC by John Bennett
Modified: 2023-07-27 19:53 UTC (History)
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Description John Bennett 2023-07-07 04:25:49 UTC 
Have USB Network adaptor (Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]) that has recently been added as Kernel Driver  

Ver	Source	Config	By ID	By Class
6.2 - 6.3	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822bu.c	CONFIG_RTW88 CONFIG_RTW88_8822BU CONFIG_WLAN CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK	0bda:b812	*

(thank you), and is working fine, except the inbuilt LED activity indicator on the device does not operate/lightup at all.
Device seems to operate ok, otherwise.

Indicator works when running Windows/Ubuntu OS'.
Comment 1 John Bennett 2023-07-07 04:29:23 UTC 
hw-probe location: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=0d98ce8578#Devices
Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2023-07-10 07:52:05 UTC 
Could you check the behavior with 6.4.x kernel in OBS Kernel:stable repo?
Comment 3 John Bennett 2023-07-10 09:59:11 UTC 
(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #2)
> Could you check the behavior with 6.4.x kernel in OBS Kernel:stable repo?

Ummm, sorry, but how do I do that?
Thanks.
Comment 4 Takashi Iwai 2023-07-10 10:42:57 UTC 
Get kernel-default.rpm from the URL
  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
and install it via "zypper install kernel-default-*.rpm", then reboot / retest with it.

Note that it's an unofficial build, hence you'd need to disable Secure Boot if it was on.
Comment 5 John Bennett 2023-07-11 03:08:16 UTC 
(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #4)
> Get kernel-default.rpm from the URL
>   http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
> and install it via "zypper install kernel-default-*.rpm", then reboot /
> retest with it.
> 
> Note that it's an unofficial build, hence you'd need to disable Secure Boot
> if it was on.

Done.
Have rebooted using: 
6.4.2-2.gb97b894-default

Indicator still not active.

Thanks.
Comment 6 Takashi Iwai 2023-07-11 06:30:47 UTC 
OK, then it's likely an issue to be addressed in the upstream.
Could you report it to the upstream?
Comment 7 John Bennett 2023-07-11 07:08:32 UTC 
(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #6)
> OK, then it's likely an issue to be addressed in the upstream.
> Could you report it to the upstream?

Sorry. How do I do that?
Comment 8 Takashi Iwai 2023-07-11 07:21:01 UTC 
At best, post to linux-wireless mailing list.

You can open an entry on bugzilla.kernel.org, too, but this often isn't taken care of well.
Comment 9 John Bennett 2023-07-11 10:15:41 UTC 
(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #8)
> At best, post to linux-wireless mailing list.
> 
> You can open an entry on bugzilla.kernel.org, too, but this often isn't
> taken care of well.

There seems to be numerous linux-wireless mailing lists, can you give me a URL?
Thanks.
Comment 10 Takashi Iwai 2023-07-17 08:27:24 UTC 
The ML address is linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org