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)
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]