Getting Wifi Drivers to work

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  • rtw89

    Driver for Realtek 8852AE, an 802.11ax device

    • Fairly new to linux and I love Nixos so far; however, for the life of me I can't find any resource to get my wifi drivers working. The wifi chip on my laptop uses rtw89_8852be driver. On Arch I was able to use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtw89-dkms-git from the AUR and on Debian I could compile the driver from this resource https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89. Nix has the rtw89-firmware package, which does not include drivers for rtw89_8852be, and while the vanilla linux kernel has a module for rtw89 drivers it is only missing rtw89_8852be. All the other listed kernel packages do not work either. Is there any way to manually make the kernel module from the .bin file for driver? Thanks.

  • nixos-hardware

    A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

    • Have you checked nixos-hardware? https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/

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