Nixpkgs: Updated Realtek wifi codes (rtlwifi_new-extended)

[bloomvdomino]

Project description
The extended branch of the rtlwifi_new project contains a lot of new kernel modules for realtek wifi cards released after 2018!

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/
• source URL: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/tree/extended
• license: gpl
• platforms: linux

[teal77]

(linuxPackages.rtlwifi_new.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
      src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "lwfinger";
    repo = "rtlwifi_new";
    rev = "83fc4fc1245e672e9dc9240c668175ae09b753d5";
    sha256 = "09pnv2scamlnb80kpj4kfizhb18fs4gp58ld4pxy0png7fcwssvz";
  };
    }))

I tried to override src attribute to point to a commit in extended branch. I can see it build the driver I want in logs, but the build outputs don't get copied to kernel module dir.

[teal77]

  boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
  boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages;[ (rtlwifi_new.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
      src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    "owner" = "lwfinger";
    "repo" = "rtlwifi_new";
    "rev" = "e3260995279100d7ec9addc407922ce895a93cea";
    "sha256" = "19hhjzjlwpg3bk4fr3sl0lbrwnn24ccxxfmrrbh0zkhh4ppds05k";
  };
    })) ];

  #optionally set any extra config for your drivers
  boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
    options rtl8723de ant_sel=2
  '';

Solved it. The override I made in general packages list didn't apply to kernel packages. Also I was using linuxPackages_latest kernel and the override was for the default kernel.
As the wiki says, you need to be careful when using a different kernel.

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[kisik21]

Well, guess what, the repo was deleted. I was using the repo with my overlay to get the driver for rtl8723de, but now I don't know if it'll work without it. If I don't report in 30 minutes, this means my Wi-Fi card is dead :heart_eyes:

[teal77]

Drivers got upstreamed in 5.8 kernel. WiFi now works out of the box.

On Wed, 19 Aug, 2020, 02:26 Vika, [e-mail] wrote:

Well, guess what, the repo was deleted. I was using the repo with my
overlay to get the driver for rtl8723de, but now I don't know if it'll work
without it. If I don't report in 30 minutes, this means my Wi-Fi card is
dead 😍

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[kisik21]

Great! I need to test it right away! if it works, then I guess the issue can be closed.

[kisik21]

Ouch, 5.8 isn't packaged yet

[bloomvdomino]

I think I will keep this packaging request open, as for now not all drivers got upstreamed to rtw88!