| 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? | 11:13 |
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| lotuspsychje | EtherMan: realtek chipsets are always sensitive to kernel versions | 11:17 |
| lotuspsychje | adviced to test a few different kernels out, to see wich work and wich not | 11:18 |
| 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 | 11:19 |
| 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 | 11:21 |
| EtherMan | There is a dkms driver which was terrible... But mainline kernel should hopefully be better | 11:22 |
| lotuspsychje | !info linux-image-generic | 11:23 |
| ubottu | linux-image-generic (source: linux-meta): Generic Linux kernel image. In component main, is optional. Version 5.8.0.45.50 (groovy), package size 2 kB, installed size 18 kB | 11:23 |
| lotuspsychje | EtherMan: this the version it doesnt work on ^ ? | 11:23 |
| 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? | 11:24 |
| lotuspsychje | EtherMan: talk to jeremy31 in #ubuntu-discuss he's our wifi wizard, he might know something or a git | 11:26 |
| EtherMan | Sure, but like... Someone here must be running the daily and can see if the kernel has that option set no? | 11:27 |
| lotuspsychje | sure, you can idle here to see if other volunteers have the same chipset | 11:28 |
| EtherMan | You don't need the same chipset to see if an option is enabled... | 11:29 |
| lotuspsychje | ok, other volunteers that want to test | 11:31 |
| 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. | 11:40 |
| lotuspsychje | EtherMan: there was bug #1885862 for focal & groovy thats interesting | 11:43 |
| ubottu | bug 1885862 in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal) "Add in-tree Realtek 8821CE wireless module support" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1885862 | 11:43 |
| lotuspsychje | maybe you could talk to the #ubuntu-kernel guys about this | 11:44 |
| 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. | 11:48 |
| 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 | 11:53 |
| lotuspsychje | tnx guiverc seems like ubottu is behind again | 11:54 |
| 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 :/ | 11:55 |
| 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 | 11:57 |
| EtherMan | I don't. Don't have the storage with me to keep isos around just because. Ultraslim so total drive is 32gig | 11:58 |
| oerheks | /clear | 14:37 |
| 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. | 20:18 |
| 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. | 20:19 |
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