rtw88 VS LARBS

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.

this is one i recognize from other support threads: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88

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)

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?

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.

- 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.

I've tried to install these drivers: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88, but it still doesn't work.

Maybe this https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88 works.

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.

There are so many awesome looking rices. They look and feel awesome and are often lightweight, too. IMO, these are a lot cooler than any pre-configured DE. Some kind of "pseudo-DE" (really a meta-package) that took care of tedious set up aspects for the user would be great. There is an example of this for arch (not endorsing it particularly, just an example of a way this could be done).

I get it, I should have been more clear about it. I don't know where the issue originates from, so I put forth all the info, which is just that vanilla arch + LARBS.

I am writing an arch bootstrap script based on luke smith's. However, I am using rEFInd ( an alternative bootloader) instead of grub. One of refind's config file looks like this :

Was there a list of software that the setup assistant listed anywhere? (something like the larbs list would be very nice)

Basically, I copied a lot from Luke Smith's LARBS, but cut it down majorly because it handles all sorts of actual installation tasks that I will do manually (new user, partitioning, etc)

I’m planning to buy a raspberry pi 4 and installing archlinux arm on it. Does something like LARBS work? since it pretty much has most of the software I need without doing much things.