Realtek 8157 driver installation (Wavlink WL-NWU340G)

[BarryS83]

FYI, RTL8157 support is now merged into the mainline r8152 driver: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...c?id=fd3c7d080df53136c7e7e37f753fb7bd4640ca42

It will be in Kernel 7.1.

I am eagerly awaiting kernel 7.1 for Proxmox. Is it also fully stable for the RTL8157?

 

[rappazz]

I am eagerly awaiting kernel 7.1 for Proxmox. Is it also fully stable for the RTL8157?

I am using the 7.1 (see https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/b...ckages-for-proxmox-ve-7-1-0-1-beta1-1.184443/) and my 5B USB LAN device is recognized and functional. No extended testing done yet.

 

[luckman212]

That's great news @rappazz - hope 7.1 or 7.2 (7.3?) start to appear in opt-in repo soon

 

[unecc]

I'm using PROXMOX
Virtual Environment 9.2.24

rtl8157 it's instable. Some other has this issue? How can i fixit?

 

[xBelladonna]

I'm using PROXMOX
Virtual Environment 9.2.24

rtl8157 it's instable. Some other has this issue? How can i fixit?

If you do uname -a to get your kernel versin and lsusb -t to see connected USB devices, their drivers, and their date rates in a tree formation.
And if you see your adapter using cdc_ncm instead of r8152 then it's because it fallback to generic network driver which latency is 10x as much and not stable at all. Linux kernel 7.1 has support for this r8152 natively, so we are eagerly awaiting this new opt-in kernel from Proxmox VE repos.

In the meantime, if you want to do something about it, you can use the DKMS driver to compile r8152 for your kernel and have a stable driver with the current kernel: https://github.com/awesometic/realtek-r8152-dkms