Re: Debian USB Wifi
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 14:52:24 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's
> > statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basically correct, of
> > course, that there are *virtually* no modern WiFi cards of any sort
> > that are supported by totally free drivers / firmware, but there are
> > apparently at least a few that do support 11ac (I'm not sure if there
> > are any at all that support 11ax).
>
> No first hand experience, mind you -- but this is what my trusty
> search engine finds:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-802.11ax-rtw89
>
> TL;DR Realtek contributed a free software driver for the kernel, rtw89,
> which was supposed to support Realtek's 11ax line. and aimed at kernel
> 5.16.
>
> This was 2021, no idea how that turned out :)
My trusty search engine finds that it did indeed make it into 5.16 - but
it does need non-free firmware:
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89#Firmware
--
Celejar
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