There are two other drivers for related hardware, the modern The mainline kernel only has a 'staging' driver for rtl8723bs, the Ship a kernel that is different from Debian's and that may have patches to fixĭriver bugs in the mainline kernel, or that enables additional modules. > modprobe: FATAL: Module rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.0-3-arm64Ĭan you check if armbian has the same kernel image? It's quite > Modprobe is attempted, but module is not found. usr/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_bt.bin usr/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin usr/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin firmware-realtek was installed to get RTL8723BS firmware. Contrib and non-free were added to /etc/apt/sources.list, despite the shame. > Install, convoluted as it was, worked OK. Paranoia or conscience motivated a return to Debian, Bullseye. But then, Distrowatch discussion of Raspberry PiOS rolling out 'an update to the distribution which installs a third-party repository for Microsoft's VSCode packages' was observed coincident with Armbian updates querying a new, non-Debian, site. All was good, more or less, aside from guilt from sin of using non-free hardware. Help? What magic step(s) are being missed? Modprobe: FATAL: Module rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.0-3-arm64įile is copied, but module is still not found. Modprobe is attempted, but module is not found. Install, convoluted as it was, worked OK.

Realtek rtl8723bs driver support