This email is directed to the Realtek engineers working on the project rtw88.
Good afternoon Realtek engineers,
In the list of supported chipsets, there seems to be one missing:
RTL8812AU
This chipset is used in quite a number of smaller USB Wi-Fi adapters, such as the NETGEAR A6100, UGREEN A1300, so on and so forth. It may also be used in PCIe cards as well, but I'm not quite sure on that front.
Here's hoping the efforts of the project go smoothly and pay off, so that more of us can enjoy not having to be tethered via an Ethernet cable.
Best regards,
Liam
Liam <[email protected]> wrote:
> This email is directed to the Realtek engineers working on the project rtw88.
>
> Good afternoon Realtek engineers,
>
> In the list of supported chipsets, there seems to be one missing:
>
> RTL8812AU
>
> This chipset is used in quite a number of smaller USB Wi-Fi adapters, such as the NETGEAR A6100, UGREEN
> A1300, so on and so forth. It may also be used in PCIe cards as well, but I'm not quite sure on that front.
>
> Here's hoping the efforts of the project go smoothly and pay off, so that more of us can enjoy not having
> to be tethered via an Ethernet cable.
>
RTL8812AE (PCIE interface of RTL8812A) is supported by rtlwifi, which USB
infrastructure is also built, so that is a choice to support RTL8812AU.
Patches are welcome.
Ping-Ke
On 03/06/2024 03:50, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> Liam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This email is directed to the Realtek engineers working on the project rtw88.
>>
>> Good afternoon Realtek engineers,
>>
>> In the list of supported chipsets, there seems to be one missing:
>>
>> RTL8812AU
>>
>> This chipset is used in quite a number of smaller USB Wi-Fi adapters, such as the NETGEAR A6100, UGREEN
>> A1300, so on and so forth. It may also be used in PCIe cards as well, but I'm not quite sure on that front.
>>
>> Here's hoping the efforts of the project go smoothly and pay off, so that more of us can enjoy not having
>> to be tethered via an Ethernet cable.
>>
>
> RTL8812AE (PCIE interface of RTL8812A) is supported by rtlwifi, which USB
> infrastructure is also built, so that is a choice to support RTL8812AU.
> Patches are welcome.
>
> Ping-Ke
>
I actually modified rtl8821ae a while back. It took something
like 8 days to make RTL8821AU and RTL8812AU kind of functional.
But in the end I stopped and switched to rtw88. Partly because
Kalle doesn't like rtlwifi (I don't like it either), and partly
because there are several problems which I don't want to fix.
rtw88 is more pleasant to work with.
At this point, rtw88 support for RTL8821AU is almost complete.
It's only missing the bluetooth coexistence code. RTL8812AU
still needs some more work.