• SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I can absolutely confirm it’s still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset that basically no kernel version nor distro provided out of the box, so I constantly had to download a third-party driver from Github and manually patch it via dkms, or use a third-party repository containing the driver package… and then the driver broke so badly that it wouldn’t let me update at all unless I uninstalled it, which left me without the internet I needed to actually update, effectively leaving me unable to update until I could buy another one from Mediatek that’s compatible.

    And said Mediatek wifi is really slow, so I just went from the frying pan into the fire…

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      I can absolutely confirm it’s still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset

      Yeah, and I was explicitly writing about recent chips. RTL8812AU isn’t recent. The very latest Windows driver is from 2018, so the chip itself was released a good while before that.

      I know exactly what you had to go through because I had to do the same with mine a couple of years ago but since then for newer chips Realtek started contributing to Linux itself:

      which left me without the internet I need

      USB tethering your WiFi-connected phone would have worked as stop gap just as well. I had to do that a lot.

      • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ahh I see, thanks for clarifying. It seems that where I live mostly only has the older Realtek chips for sale, so I likely mostly had bad luck.

        I tried USB tethering, but it wouldn’t work for some reason… I don’t remember exactly what happened, but I think either the phone or my computer couldn’t detect each other.