On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
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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.