[11:13] <EtherMan> Anyone know if the driver for realtek 8821CE has been enabled out of the box in Hirsute? I know it's not quite released yet, but unless the kernel is downgraded it's at least a kernel that has the driver, but is it enabled currently in the betas?
[11:17] <lotuspsychje> EtherMan: realtek chipsets are always sensitive to kernel versions
[11:18] <lotuspsychje> adviced to test a few different kernels out, to see wich work and wich not
[11:19] <EtherMan> That should not be the case with a kernel driver... In this case rtw88 driver, if CONFIG_RTW88_8821CE has been set, as of 5.9
[11:21] <lotuspsychje> EtherMan: the kernel devs always have a lot of work with realtek, as there's no magic red button for all chipsets to work out of the box
[11:21] <lotuspsychje> hence a lot of existing bugs
[11:22] <EtherMan> There is a dkms driver which was terrible... But mainline kernel should hopefully be better
[11:23] <lotuspsychje> !info linux-image-generic
[11:23] <lotuspsychje> EtherMan: this the version it doesnt work on ^ ?
[11:24] <EtherMan> There is no driver for that nic in 5.8. Not without dkms stuff.
[11:24] <EtherMan> There's enough issues with it hw wise that bugs are expected... But the question is, will it even be enabled to have a potential to work, or will it just be a reinstall of windows on this thing again?
[11:26] <lotuspsychje> EtherMan: talk to jeremy31 in #ubuntu-discuss he's our wifi wizard, he might know something or a git
[11:27] <EtherMan> Sure, but like... Someone here must be running the daily and can see if the kernel has that option set no?
[11:28] <lotuspsychje> sure, you can idle here to see if other volunteers have the same chipset
[11:29] <EtherMan> You don't need the same chipset to see if an option is enabled...
[11:31] <lotuspsychje> ok, other volunteers that want to test
[11:40] <EtherMan> Not much to test... 'cat /boot/config-$(uname -r) | grep CONFIG_RTW88' would tell. It will print both if rtw88 is enabled, which I assume since it is in 20.04 and 20.10, as well as if 8821CE is enabled in it.
[11:43] <lotuspsychje> EtherMan: there was bug #1885862 for focal & groovy thats interesting
[11:44] <lotuspsychje> maybe you could talk to the #ubuntu-kernel guys about this
[11:48] <EtherMan> It's still in progress and won't  be relevant in a while anyway. As the options I'm considering is a reinstall of windows now, or waiting for hirsute and installing that. And it's pretty much decided by if the module will be there in hirsute or not.
[11:53] <guiverc> EtherMan, you can download the daily ISO & give it a try (https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install)  if you file your testing on the iso.qa.ubuntu.com & file bugs, there is a far higher chance it'll get fixed now, before 21.04 is released
[11:53] <guiverc> also hirsute is now using 5.11 kernel
[11:54] <lotuspsychje> tnx guiverc seems like ubottu is behind again
[11:55] <EtherMan> 2gig on a 10gig monthly budget right now is a bit too much for me. Unfortunately not at home for almost a month so
[11:55] <EtherMan> So I'd really like to not have to take that just to check a config :/
[11:57] <guiverc> if you have an existing ISO, a zsync of whatever you have and the Ubuntu ISO could mean you start at 45-85% complete
[11:58] <EtherMan> I don't. Don't have the storage with me to keep isos around just because. Ultraslim so total drive is 32gig
[14:37] <oerheks>  /clear
[20:18] <MikeRL> Good news. If this https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/commit/b23b948d1a221043100911a6f7c0706fd46e17cc can be cherry picked into Ubuntu's version of dash to dock, the shell update breakage will go away.
[20:19] <MikeRL> At least I think that's the right commit. I cloned from master and the overview is no longer a mess when searching after pressing the Windows key.