Last summer I wrote about an attempt to get 802.11ax / Wifi 6 to work on a Linux. Spoiler: It didn't.
A week ago, the author of many Realtek-drivers, Nick Morrow contacted me to inform of a new driver version for RTL8832BU and RTL8852BU Chipsets.
After ./install-driver.sh
, the kernel module 8852bu
is installed. Dmesg will still display product as 802.11ac WLAN Adapter, however incorrect information that will be. After couple of retries, I managed to get WPA3 authentication working.
Ah joy. The USB-stick works! Performs quite fast also.
Very quirky driver, still. I can't seem to get the thing working on every plugin. Need to try multiple times. Typical failure is "No secrets were provided" -error with "state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', managed-type: 'full')" in message log. I have absolutely no idea why this is happening, the built-in Realtek works every time.