Realtek RTW88

IMPORTANT

Due to the need to get iwlwifi stable and the lack of hands rtw8 is currently disabled in main.

Prolog

Support for Realtek's rtw88 driver. The driver should auto-load, if not try to load kldload if_rtw88.

FAQ

Currently known issue

Older problems (likely) fixed

Support Matrix

Which chipset was tested?

Card

PCI IDs

Current state

RTL8821CE

0x10ec/0xc821/0x1a3b/0x3040

Fails to load firmware (email: 21-09-08) -- likely fixed

RTL8821CE

0x10ec/0xc821/0x1a3b/0x3040

4G limit + packets https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2022-April/000395.html

RTL8822BE

?/?/?/?

Fails to load firmware (email: 21-09-07)

RTL8822BE

0x10ec/0xb822/0x103c/0x831b

Works with less than 4G of RAM.

RTL8822CE

0x10ec/0xc822/0x1a3b/0x3750

Works with less than 4G of RAM???

RTL8822CE

0x10ec/0xc822/0x103c/0x85f7

4G limit + packets https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2022-April/000379.html

RTL8822CE

Problems with 9.9.11 firmware supporting hw_scan (see PR mentioned below); with 9.9.10 starts to work if memory limited to 4G

Other possibly supported chipsets?

Card

PCI IDs

Current state

RTL8723DE

0x10ec/0xd723/????/????

11n only? No feedback yet.

PRs

USB Support

Contact

You can reach me at (bz at FreeBSD.ORG) or via the freebsd-wireless mailing list. If possible add "[rtw88]" to the subject. Let me kindly ask you to give me some time to reply and help; I am not doing this full-time but I will try to acknowledge your email as soon as I can.

To keep track and references to some problems or other significant changes during development / testing:

History


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WiFi/Rtw88 (last edited 2023-10-06T10:08:42+0000 by BjoernZeeb)