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 :) Might help someone. Cheers -- t
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