The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Oct 12, 2020 17:59 UTC (Mon) by james (subscriber, #1325)
Parent article: The 5.9 kernel has been released

Good news: it has initial support for the Realtek 8821CE chip, which seems to be widely used in low to mid-range laptops.

Bad news:

rfe 2 isn't supported
failed to setup chip efuse info
failed to setup chip information

and it still doesn't work.

Good news: there's supposed to be a simple fix.

Bad news: Realtek have NAKed it in favour of The RFE type 2 should be working with some additional fixes....I will ask someone else to fix them.

Meanwhile, this laptop is over a year old.

Good news: USB Wifi dongles exist.

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The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Oct 13, 2020 7:31 UTC (Tue) by flussence (subscriber, #85566) [Link]

Does anyone know what went wrong with Realtek, in general? They seem to have passed even the infamous Broadcom in number of driver complaints online as of late.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Apr 27, 2021 19:00 UTC (Tue) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]

Good news: the 5.12 kernel finally supports Realtek 8821CE wi-fi adapters wired in rfe 2 mode. So far, it seems to be working properly.