rtw88 VS ipu6-drivers

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.

It to me like support landed August 29th, according to https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/pull/174

Alas the IPU6 driver for webcams has been sitting around unreviewed for a while now. https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/issues/22#issuecomment...

Huge block of code so I understand but also for sure one of the worst most commonly experienced incompatibilities for contemporary Intel laptops.

Personally, I'm waiting for the camera drivers to be merged into the mainline Linux kernel, which should then be picked up by Fedora relatively quickly. About the camera, as per https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/webcam-on-dell-xps-13-plus-9320-intel-ipu6/68920, there seems to be some packages on RPM fusion that will help, but you'll still need to install some things from source (https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers), and apparently that entails reinstalling the drivers whenever you update the kernel, so that's a no-go for me. I stick with Fedora because I prefer it to Ubuntu, and even the Ubuntu install was buggy, the wifi connection was unstable and the camera only worked in some apps (the ones that use libcamera). I'm pretty mad that Canonical would give its seal of approval to hardware with this level of support…

I have bought acer swift 3 laptop, but it seems webcam is not working on linux for these. Can someone please help me to install https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers on my arch linux ? I have intermediate experience with arch but haven't build/compiled kernels.

I'm following the instructions here https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers installing all other requirements. Tried 2 times and still no success seeing any camera picture in cheese or gst.

Avoid. I made a mistake and bought it, but it came with cameras that are not supported. And no, https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/ will not help either, because the OV5678 sensor does not yet have any driver.

To use the camera, you need the correct driver, and libcamera. For IPU3, the driver is in the kernel, it is just unusable without libcamera and without the manufacturer putting the correct information about it into ACPI tables (which they often don't do, because it is also sufficient to hard-code this in WIndows drivers). For IPU6, you need to visit https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/, and even then, some sensors are unsupported. Judging by the commit history, the driver is on life support (i.e. only adaptations to the new kernel versions done by Hans de Goede, not by Intel) and no new sensors are being added.

see: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/wpooq8/thinkpad_x1_carbon_gen_10_linux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/x5zlpt/my_thoughts_so_far_on_x1_carbon_gen_10_highest/ https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers