rtw88 VS wacom-hid-descriptors

Compare rtw88 vs wacom-hid-descriptors and see what are their differences.

rtw88

A backport of the Realtek Wifi 5 drivers from the wireless-next repo. (by lwfinger)

wacom-hid-descriptors

Database of HID descriptors for Wacom pen/touch digitizers (by linuxwacom)
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rtw88 wacom-hid-descriptors
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11 days ago about 1 month ago
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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

wacom-hid-descriptors

Posts with mentions or reviews of wacom-hid-descriptors. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-26.
  • Getting a Stylus to work properly
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 8 Jan 2022
    The script should have created a tarball. You'll need to create a new [wacom-hid-descriptors issue](https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors/issues) and attach that tarball.
  • 2in1 Laptop tablet mode and stylus
    3 projects | /r/pop_os | 26 Aug 2021
    Before I even do that, I submitted my devices information to wacom-hid-descriptors. I read through several issues that were submitted under libwacom, of people in my similar situation, and it was the first step the devs recommended. Mine def isn't listed in their repo.
  • Issues with stylus on Linux on ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd
    1 project | /r/LinuxOnThinkpad | 8 Mar 2021
    There are at least two variants of the "ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd" which each have a different tablet sensor inside. You might want to follow the "Contributing" instructions at https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors/#contributing to provide a sysinfo dump for the linuxwacom team. They can add your specific device to the libwacom database if it isn't already there. Its also possible that Ubuntu 20.04 just has an out-of-date version of libwacom, in which case they can temporarily provide you with an updated database.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rtw88 and wacom-hid-descriptors you can also consider the following projects:

rtl8821ce

libwacom - libwacom is a tablet description library

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

jsonlite - A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, json document store.

bluez - Main BlueZ tree

alpine-mariadb - MariaDB running on Alpine Linux [Docker]

USB-WiFi - USB WiFi Adapter Information for Linux

dmenuWacom - DMenuWacom is a script that allows you to manage Wacom graphics tablets, allows you to remap keys, create custom profiles and even select a screen of your choice. It is meant for zsh so to run it among the dependencies it requires that too, but actually even if you use bash as the default shell, the important thing is to have zsh installed

things.sh - Simple read-only comand-line interface to your Things 3 database

ipu6-drivers