RTL8852AU
Running a Beelink SER7 device with the bazzite-deck image. The device has a barely usable WiFi/Bluetooth configuration so I bought external adapters. The Bluetooth one works (I think it’s AX200) but the RTL8852AU adapter doesn’t have a kernel module as reported by
lsusb -t (it says “[none]”). On Arch and other distros with dkms I can just add it as a dkms module, which Bazzite and Silverblue don’t seem to have. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8852au
What’s the most straightforward way to get this working on Bazzite? Getting an Intel based adapter isn’t an option atm (I can’t return the one I got to the store)GitHub
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The only way you could make this work is by creating a custom image
You can't layer drivers and we will not include out of tree Wi-Fi drivers due to them usually being either terrible quality, or breaking existing hardware, which is why they are not upstreamed
Gotcha. I’ll give it away to a friend with a Windows device and I’ll get an EDUP EP-AX1673 which seems to have an MT7921U, should be in-tree for 5.11 and newer I believe?
Once that arrives how would I disable the built in AX200? On other systems I’d add a
blacklist iwlwifi and blacklist wl to modprobe. Don’t have a toggle in bios unfortunatelyAX200 is Intel and fully supported
No need to disable that
The computer has a terrible configuration with horrendous antenna placements, and any kind of load on the APU makes the built-in Bluetooth and WiFi pretty much stop working for a good minute
I think it might be due to interference or whatever and the fact the case is all metal.. to avoid the interference with wireless adapters people use USB extension cords
Reason I want to disable it is to reduce interference.. unless disabling it in networkmanager is good enough? (doesn’t seem to be possible)