Bug 247495

Summary:	rtw88: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter support
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Andrey P. <andrewponomarenko>
Component:	wireless	Assignee:	freebsd-wireless (Nobody) <wireless>
Status:	Closed DUPLICATE
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	alfre2.as, bz, emaste, me, oleg.nauman, vidwer+fbsdbugs
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	feature, needs-patch, needs-qa
Version:	CURRENT	Flags:	koobs: mfc-stable13? koobs: mfc-stable12?
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Andrey P. 2020-06-23 08:22:29 UTC

Please add support for RTL8821CE wireless PCIe card if possible.

Support for this device is critical to conquer market of desktops since this device is 11th most popular card this year after QCA9377, AR9285, AR9485, QCA9565, Intel 8265, Intel 7260, Intel 7265, BCM4313, Intel 9560 and Cannon Point-LP CNVi: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=net_model&search=wireless&period=-2

Thank you.

Comment 1 vidwer+fbsdbugs 2020-06-23 09:44:18 UTC

You should be (made) aware that, depending on where you obtain source code for this chipset from, _possibly_ an incompatible license applies.

See https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/blob/rtw88/rtw8821ce.c versus https://github.com/RangeeGmbH/rtl8821ce/blob/master/include/rtl8821ce_hal.h

Comment 2 Bjoern A. Zeeb freebsd_committer

2020-07-31 11:35:53 UTC

Seems the 8821C code was mrged into the official wireless-testing tree as well in the rtw88 driver with a dual GPL-BSD license.

So this will emerge as well with rtw88 (see PR 248235 for more details).
It is a while out, but I'll post something to test as soon as possible (if even just with abg[n]) support.

Comment 3 Bjoern A. Zeeb freebsd_committer

2021-08-18 10:34:02 UTC

I'll merge the PRs so there's only one to track.
Please follow the later 248235 and keep an eye on freebsd-wireless the next week or so.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 248235 ***