Re: Bug#917941: Installation Buster on HP 17-by Notebook
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 05:21:05PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
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> 1. https://github.com/endlessm/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8821ce
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> So I guess there's not much we can do on the debian-installer side, we
> would need to get this module merged into our linux source package to
> make use of it, and I don't think the kernel team would add random out
> of tree modules. ISTR backporting drivers is something that happens, so
> we might get this module supported in a later 4.19.x release, once it
> reaches mainline and someone backports it?
>
> Cc'ing kernel team to make sure I'm not entirely wrong here. Maybe also
> steal this bug away from installation-reports and have it retitled “no
> support for rtl8821ce” or something similar?
An official driver for Realtek 802.11ac chips was added to Linux 5.2
(rtw88) which is maintained by Realtek staff. Unfortunately it currently
only supports the RTL8822 chips, but the initial commit for 5.2 mentioned
that also want to add support for RTL8821.
Cheers,
Moritz
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