woelkchen, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

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:

• phoronix.com/…/Realtek-RTW88-WiFi-Linux-Driver
• www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-802.11ax-rtw89

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.