On 24.11.2020 21:07, Kanito 73 wrote:
Hello community
I have (almost) ready mylaptop, but there are still a few details to
fix... I've used an external driver for my RTL8821CE
wifi(https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce
<https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce>) but it is not loaded during
the boot process. The generated module is "rtl8821ae.ko" (not
"rtl8821ce.ko") but apparently it works fine (have to test it thoroughly).
When I first tried to load rtl8821CE the system said that could not be
find at /lib/modules/5.8... so I searched for it manually and found
rtl8821AE at /lib/modules/5.8.../kernel/drivers/net/wireless and
loaded manually "modprobe rtl8821ae", then the wifi device appeared
and worked.
My question is: How can I load automatically the driver? Perhaps the
kernel detects RTL8821CE and expects for rtl8821ce.ko... Is there some
way to load it explicitly maybe adding rtl8821ae.ko to a list of
modules to load?
Thanks again for your help and patience
Is there a reason for using an external driver? Kernel module for your
NIC is already provided by stable kernel image. You've probably just
missing a firmware. [1]
Have you tried to install "firmware-realtek" package from non-free
section of official Debian "buster" or "buster-backports" repo?
[1] https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-realtek
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