Bug#905867: firmware-realtek: Wi-Fi does not work on rtl8822be but Bluetooth does

[Matthew Crews]

I can confirm this bug on my end too on my Lenovo E580 laptop.

What I find odd is that Ubuntu has no problems recognizing this chipset and 
having the wifi work, but Debian doesn't even recognize that the WiFi device is 
there.

Bug#905867: firmware-realtek: Wi-Fi does not work on rtl8822be but Bluetooth does

[Soren Stoutner]

Package: firmware-realtek
Version: 20180518-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The recent update of the firmware-realtek package added support for the 
rtl8822be chipset.  Bluetooth now works but Wi-Fi doesn't.
Dmesg doesn't even indicate the they system attempts to load the Wi-Fi firmware.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-realtek depends on no packages.

firmware-realtek recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-realtek suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.132

-- no debconf information