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    It's OK if you cry (infosec.pub)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    I can absolutely confirm it's still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset that basically no kernel version nor distro provided out of the box, so I constantly had to download a third-party driver from Github and manually patch it via dkms, or use a third-party repository containing the driver package... and then the driver broke so badly that it wouldn't let me update at all unless I uninstalled it, which left me without the internet I needed to actually update, effectively leaving me unable to update until I could buy another one from Mediatek that's compatible.

    And said Mediatek wifi is really slow, so I just went from the frying pan into the fire...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    I can absolutely confirm it’s still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset

    Yeah, and I was explicitly writing about recent chips. RTL8812AU isn't recent. The very latest Windows driver is from 2018, so the chip itself was released a good while before that.

    I know exactly what you had to go through because I had to do the same with mine a couple of years ago but since then for newer chips Realtek started contributing to Linux itself:

    which left me without the internet I need

    USB tethering your WiFi-connected phone would have worked as stop gap just as well. I had to do that a lot.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Ahh I see, thanks for clarifying. It seems that where I live mostly only has the older Realtek chips for sale, so I likely mostly had bad luck.

    I tried USB tethering, but it wouldn't work for some reason... I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think either the phone or my computer couldn't detect each other.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    USB tethering should look on the PC just like plugging an Ethernet cable.