Rtw88 Alternatives

rtw88 reviews and mentions

• 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
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