On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 14:52:24 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's > > statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basically correct, of > > course, that there are *virtually* no modern WiFi cards of any sort > > that are supported by totally free drivers / firmware, but there are > > apparently at least a few that do support 11ac (I'm not sure if there > > are any at all that support 11ax). > > No first hand experience, mind you -- but this is what my trusty > search engine finds: > > https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-802.11ax-rtw89 > > TL;DR Realtek contributed a free software driver for the kernel, rtw89, > which was supposed to support Realtek's 11ax line. and aimed at kernel > 5.16. > > This was 2021, no idea how that turned out :)
My trusty search engine finds that it did indeed make it into 5.16 - but it does need non-free firmware: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89 https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89#Firmware -- Celejar
