LWN: Comments on "The 5.9 kernel has been released"

The 5.9 kernel has been released

james — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:00:47 +0000

Good news: the 5.12 kernel finally supports Realtek 8821CE wi-fi adapters wired in rfe 2 mode. So far, it seems to be working properly.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

flussence — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:31:34 +0000

Does anyone know what went wrong with Realtek, in general? They seem to have passed even the infamous Broadcom in number of driver complaints online as of late.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

pbanana — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 03:58:25 +0000

Looking forward to this hitting Tumbleweed.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

james — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:59:45 +0000

Good news: it has initial support for the Realtek 8821CE chip, which seems to be widely used in low to mid-range laptops.

Bad news:

rfe 2 isn't supported
failed to setup chip efuse info
failed to setup chip information

and it still doesn't work.

Good news: there's supposed to be a simple fix.

Bad news: Realtek have NAKed it in favour of The RFE type 2 should be working with some additional fixes....I will ask someone else to fix them.

Meanwhile, this laptop is over a year old.

Good news: USB Wifi dongles exist.

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bangert — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:13:02 +0000

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

from the kernel newbies page.

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MKesper — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:12:33 +0000

Do you have any link to that?

The 5.9 kernel has been released

hrw — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:43:44 +0000

Updated my system calls table (no changes since previous run other than kernel version):

https://fedora.juszkiewicz.com.pl/syscalls.html

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alexarnaud — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:26:34 +0000

Thanks for pointing it, this is a very good news!

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alex19EP — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:22:12 +0000

the best and most welcome change. perhaps now Fedora will build kernels with accessibility support. at least I hope so.