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RTL8723DE & AMD A9 9420 APU Driver
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Hello Solus team can you please add RTL8723DE & AMD A9 9420 APU Driver on Solus because on my laptop the OS is not working properly like no Wi-Fi adapter and random blackscreen always appear.

Laptop : HP Model 14-bw15AU
CPU : AMD A9 9420 APU
GPU : AMD Radeon R5 (Integrated)
Wi-Fi : Realtek RTL8723DE

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Did you find any solution?? I am really struggling with setting up the driver, ar least show me a way of building it or redirect me to one

Nothing needs to be done to better support the APU itself. We do not support or distribute out of tree wireless drivers since they frequently violate regulatory requirements.

I want just the wifi driver, only that

Which we have repeatedly said we aren't going to provide.

I wanted just some guidance to find a way of getting it, not for you to provide it.

Which we also don't provide. That's what I meant by "support". We can't assist you in doing something that might be considered illegal.

Illegal to have some drivers. There are not even commercial products for god sake. You are just afraid of entering the field of supporting different hardware. If it was a support for dkms I wouldn't be here. Guess what?! You are not supporting that either. I understand that you don't ship the drivers but as a customer support service you can try to help me. If not, why is this site meaning?!

Ok. So here's something you need to understand. I am a US citizen and many of the other Solus developers have similar laws in their countries. Aiding a crime is punishable for us. In this particular instance, many of the out-of-tree Realtek (and other) wireless drivers have been modified to improve signal strength. If the transmission strength is too high, it can violate local regulations. This is especially true of those set forth by the FCC. I am sorry that your hardware is not well supported by the Linux kernel drivers, but I cannot help you obtain a driver that may violate these regulations as I would become legally responsible for that.

We don't support DKMS because it requires your initramfs to be rebuilt every time a new kernel update goes out. Most of the time that is every week and adds anywhere from 5-15 minutes to everyone's update times per installed kernel. I'm sorry that you don't agree with that decision, but that's how we view it.

I am sorry for producing inconveniance. I just wanted an argumented answer, not the short usual one.

Well now you can better understand why we have a blanket ban on out-of-tree wireless drivers and why we don't explain it every single time ;)