rtl8821ce VS rtw88

Compare rtl8821ce vs rtw88 and see what are their differences.

rtw88

A backport of the Realtek Wifi 5 drivers from the wireless-next repo. (by lwfinger)
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rtl8821ce rtw88
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4.8 8.4
about 1 month ago 5 days ago
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rtl8821ce

Posts with mentions or reviews of rtl8821ce. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-19.

rtw88

Posts with mentions or reviews of rtw88. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-22.
  • Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2023
    Not a high end device (Dell Vostro 15 3515), but it comes with preinstalled Ubuntu as well. It has some serious problems with wireless (10ec:c821). The default driver frequently loses connection on some wifi networks (it has issue with many networks though surprisingly not all of them). Sometimes reloading the driver helps, sometimes it just hangs my system. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88 seems to work a bit better though still has the same problem sometimes. It turns out that rfkill block wlan && sleep 3 && rfkill unblock wlan works better than reloading the driver. At least this way I haven't hanged my system yet. And wifi does not seem to be able to work at the same time as bluetooth.

    Otherwise a fine device.

  • RTL8821CE WiFi card not working.
    3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 15 Jan 2023
    this is one i recognize from other support threads: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88
  • RTL8821ce WIFI Adapter Work Around. Can I use a USB WIFI Adapter?
    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 29 Dec 2022
    So my laptop has the RTL8821ce WIFI adapter, which doesn't like to work with the Linux OS. I've tried both the official rtw88 driver, and the unofficial rtl8821ce-dkms-git drivers, and although they work, they are less than ideal to say the least. (Connection drops randomly, range is abysmal, and net speed is painful)
  • Laptop overheating with rtw_8723de
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Dec 2022
    I have installed Larry Finger’s rtw_8723de wifi driver for my chip rtl8723de. I have to blacklist it from loading at boot as the system does not boot if I don’t blacklist it. Is there a way to figure what goes wrong?
  • wireless Wi-Fi problem
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 19 Dec 2022
    I have the same wifi adapter. Unfortunately, it does not work out of the box in linux. You need to install this exact driver for it work properly. Instructions for ubuntu are written there. And obviously you are going to need an internet connection first. I use an ethernet cable for this, but if you lack that, you may be able to download the necessary packages through windows, move them to linux storage and do an offline install there but I don't know the specifics of that procedure.
  • ASUS TUF A15 (FA506IH) - Wireless NIC issue and ACPI bug, or any BIOS update?
    1 project | /r/Asustuf | 10 Nov 2022
    - On Linux: post suspend/sleep got the the same error like: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88/issues/56 - I tried to disable `aspm` and/or `msi` and the workaround mentioned in the issue, but it does not work.
  • Huawei MateBook D14 Wi-Fi connection problems
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 21 May 2022
    I've tried to install these drivers: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88, but it still doesn't work.
  • From win to PopOs, WiFi issue
    1 project | /r/pop_os | 18 May 2022
    Maybe this https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88 works.
  • Help! Confused between which drivers to choose
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 14 May 2022
    The driver for that card is rtw88. It should be included in the kernel or in this github repo. Since you're on Manjaro it's probably in the AUR as well.
  • everyone who has problems with Realtek RTL8821CE
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 6 May 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rtl8821ce and rtw88 you can also consider the following projects:

itlwm - Intel Wi-Fi Drivers for macOS

LARBS - Luke's Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts: Installation Scripts for My Arch Linux Meta-Distribution

rtl8821CU - Realtek RTL8811CU/RTL8821CU USB Wi-Fi adapter driver for Linux

bluez - Main BlueZ tree

USB-WiFi - USB WiFi Adapter Information for Linux

Wireless-USB-OC-Big-Sur-Adapter - Drivers for Realtek 802.11n and 802.11ac USB Wi-Fi adapters. Packages for macOS Hackintosh PC or Laptop

libwacom - libwacom is a tablet description library

archiso - Official archiso scripts Repository (read-only mirror)

wacom-hid-descriptors - Database of HID descriptors for Wacom pen/touch digitizers

rtl8852be - Realtek Linux WLAN Driver for RTL8852BE

ipu6-drivers