I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:30 PM Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
I don't have a specific answer. But linux-hardware.org is where I would start looking.
Jeff
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 11:30 AM Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
You would have to ask the question to Realtec and/or whoever wrote that driver.
Realtec (or whoever wrote the driver) would need to submit the driver to the linux kernel and get it accepted and added to the linux kernel. I don't know why that step has never been done.
I gave up on using my realtec usb device, it was simply too much work to keep finding the updated driver code for the new kernels. And you really never knew on a kernel update if it was going to compile and work on the new kernel, it seems to break every 2-3 updates.
I eventually replaced the laptop's wifi card (I think it was a realtec) with one that worked (intel ax200) reliably, and so don't need the usb one anymore.
I won't ever go with a usb one for any reason unless I can confirm that usb one is supported in the kernel already (and last time I only found N300's that had kernel support).
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:21 -0500 Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
I have a similar adapter:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2357:012d TP-Link Archer T3U [Realtek RTL8812BU]
Indeed it's annoying to keep it up to date. I do it every kernel update cloning "...github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702" and re-installing the driver, The 'dkms' installation script works fine,
Ciao
On 2/24/23 04:45, t_pol wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:21 -0500 Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
I have a similar adapter:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2357:012d TP-Link Archer T3U [Realtek RTL8812BU]
Indeed it's annoying to keep it up to date. I do it every kernel update cloning "...github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702" and re-installing the driver, The 'dkms' installation script works fine,
Ciao
Thanks, I did not find that source. It seems to be active and more up to date. Will try it out.
On 2/24/23 04:45, t_pol wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:21 -0500 Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
Has anyone had any updates on these devices?
]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
I have a similar adapter:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2357:012d TP-Link Archer T3U [Realtek RTL8812BU]
Indeed it's annoying to keep it up to date. I do it every kernel update cloning "...github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702" and re-installing the driver, The 'dkms' installation script works fine,
Ciao
Installation was successful. The readme indicates the driver is to be in the 6.2 kernels. I see there is a companion driver for the rtl8812au
On 2/23/23 12:30, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
For your rtl8812au, I was able to track down https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629
For your rtl8822bu, https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702
I'm not sure what kernel version you're running (on Fedora 37 I'm running 6.1.13) but it might be worth a shot, if you haven't tried either already? They seem to have been updated fairly recently.
Might be worth asking the maintainers to get them into the kernel itself, though...
Best, -- Slade
On 2/28/23 23:04, Slade Watkins via users wrote:
On 2/23/23 12:30, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a generalized driver but I don't see anything in ../kernel/drivers or get the devices enabled on boot.
For your rtl8812au, I was able to track down https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629
For your rtl8822bu, https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702
I'm not sure what kernel version you're running (on Fedora 37 I'm running 6.1.13) but it might be worth a shot, if you haven't tried either already? They seem to have been updated fairly recently.
Might be worth asking the maintainers to get them into the kernel itself, though...
Saw those from an earlier response and they have worked on updates to present. The readme notes that the drivers ae expected to be in the 6.2 kernel.
Waiting expectantly
On 3/3/23 23:28, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
Saw those from an earlier response and they have worked on updates to present. The readme notes that the drivers ae expected to be in the 6.2 kernel.
Waiting expectantly
Yep, looks like at least the 88x2bu driver is now. I happened to see it earlier when I was browsing the trees for something related to my drivers, haha.
Sounds like 6.2 is right around the corner considering Test Week is happening, so hopefully you won't need to wait too much longer! https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/...
Cheers, -- Slade