Re: Fedora Not Detecting RTL8821CE wifi adapter

[Roger Heflin]

Mine is a usb edimax ac1750, it works quite a bit better than the one
that came with my laptop, and has up to 3 streams vs the laptop only
having 1.  And the one in my laptop did also misbehave from time to
time.

And as others have mentioned, you only have to download a "new"
version when the kernel interfaces change enough.

I also have had at least once to get it from a new location (updated
fork that fixed the kernel interface changes).

It is a pain, but it works better than the built-in one, it would be
nice if it were in the kernel, but opening a "bug" with fedora (or
kernel.org) is unlikely to fix that, as I believe the request to
include code has to come from the original author, and not just any
random requester.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 4:15 AM t_pol  wrote:
> Thanks for the hint.
> I was sure that I had to rebuild the module at every kernel upgrade.
> What I didn't know is that a new version has to be downloaded every time.
> This is really a pain in the neck.
>
> What's your add-on wifi card?
>
> Ciao
>
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:08:01 -0500
> Roger Heflin  wrote:
> > You are also going to have to be prepared when a kernel change happens
> > and causes it to no longer compile to download an updated version that
> > has the correct code for the new kernel.
> >
> > I have a RTL8814au and it also is not in the kernel and every so often
> > you will need to go back to the last kernel that worked with it and
> > search for an updated code to support the new kernel.
> >
> > It is kind of a pain, but my usb add-on wifi card works a lot better
> > than the built-in one one my laptop.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 7:53 PM t_pol  wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:06:04 +0200
> > > Markus Schönhaber  wrote:
> > > > T Pol, 12.4.2019 12:20 +0200:
> > > > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:36:31 +0200
> > > > > Markus Schönhaber  wrote:
> > > > > > T Pol, 12.4.2019 11:24 +0200:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, for some reason, the driver for this chip does not seem
> > > > > > to be part of the official kernel.
> > > > > > I build the driver from the source here
> > > > > > https://github.com/endlessm/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8821ce
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Arch Linux has an AUR package which is supposed to build with
> > > > > > DKMS. I haven't tried to make that work for Fedora, though.
> > > > > > https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce
> > > > > BTW, Cannot find the way to download that source -(.
> > > >
> > > > You'll have to clone the respective repository. If you only want
> > > > to build the RTL wifi driver, it's probably easier to use the AUR
> > > > repository. You can download a zip file from the github page or
> > > > do a $ git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
> > > DONE. IT WORKS.
> > >
> > > CIAO
> > > Angelo
> > >
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