Re: Realtek RTL88x2BU driver

Friday, 17 December 2021

On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 03:03, Saša Janiška <gour(a)atmarama.com&gt; wrote:

...
 Hello,

 recently I was troubleshooting my father-in-law's computer and ended up
 buying TP-Link's AC1300 Wifi USB adapter for which there is no driver
 included in the kernel.

 I solved his problem by giving him my old Realtek dongle which has
 supported driver in the kernel and now I'm left with the newly bought
 one.

 My machine is connected via Ethernet, but in case that something does
 happen with my router, I'd like to have backup solution via phone's
 hotspot, so wonder - not strictly related to Fedora - what is the
 situation in regard to RTL88x2BU driver get included in the official
 Linux kernel since manual building and chasing kernel sources is not
 pretty?

https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu/issues/168 has an excellent explanation
of why linux wifi support is such a problem.   I would add that there are
lots
of devs paid to work on linux by large organisations with big data
centres.

My switch died earlier this year, but the telco router has wifi.  I used a
couple old Apple Airport Extreme boxes to provide ethernet connections
for systems that didn't have wifi, but I now realise my network needs
some planning (and testing) to handle equipment and power failures.

-- 
George N. White III