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Realtek WiFi drivers not working #7645

@richardpdunngb

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@richardpdunngb

Creating a bug report/issue

  • I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

  • DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version

  • _DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=14
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=2
    G_GITBRANCH='master'
    G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
    G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]='applied'

  • Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN

  • bookworm 0

  • Kernel version | uname -a

  • Linux DietPi 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-v7 #1 SMP Raspbian 1:6.12.34-1+rpt1~bookworm (2025-06-26) armv7l GNU/Linux

  • SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)

  • RPi 2 Model B (armv7l)

  • Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower) 5v 1a

  • SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra) Kingston

Additional Information (if applicable)

  • Software title | (EG: Nextcloud) Adguard
  • Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? installed when started with Dietpi few months ago
  • Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? yes i did retur it with fresh install
  • Bug report ID | echo $G_HW_UUID
    2c5af1d3-2b37-4ecc-9417-a5ab412459ae-

Steps to reproduce

  1. ...It happern few months ago, and i did try a fresh install to see if that would fix it, it didnt.
  2. ...as it was not important, i left it to see if the bug would get reported & fixed by others.
  3. on updating to 9.14 it did say in the release info about it, so thought i would report it.
  4. am new with Lixux, so am unsure on what i can do

Expected behaviour

I am using a pi2 with a usb wifi dondel rt2800usb (used comand lsmod to give this) The use wifi is not working in dietpi. but it works when i use other OS software ie volumio
have tried many reboots.

can you help please.

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