[11:13] 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] EtherMan: realtek chipsets are always sensitive to kernel versions [11:18] adviced to test a few different kernels out, to see wich work and wich not [11:19] 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] 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] hence a lot of existing bugs [11:22] There is a dkms driver which was terrible... But mainline kernel should hopefully be better [11:23] !info linux-image-generic [11:23] 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] EtherMan: this the version it doesnt work on ^ ? [11:24] There is no driver for that nic in 5.8. Not without dkms stuff. [11:24] 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] EtherMan: talk to jeremy31 in #ubuntu-discuss he's our wifi wizard, he might know something or a git [11:27] Sure, but like... Someone here must be running the daily and can see if the kernel has that option set no? [11:28] sure, you can idle here to see if other volunteers have the same chipset [11:29] You don't need the same chipset to see if an option is enabled... [11:31] ok, other volunteers that want to test [11:40] 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] EtherMan: there was bug #1885862 for focal & groovy thats interesting [11:43] bug 1885862 in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal) "Add in-tree Realtek 8821CE wireless module support" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1885862 [11:44] maybe you could talk to the #ubuntu-kernel guys about this [11:48] 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] 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] also hirsute is now using 5.11 kernel [11:54] tnx guiverc seems like ubottu is behind again [11:55] 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] So I'd really like to not have to take that just to check a config :/ [11:57] 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] I don't. Don't have the storage with me to keep isos around just because. Ultraslim so total drive is 32gig [14:37] /clear [20:18] 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] 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.