• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    11 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:

    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.

    • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      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.