On Sun, 2023-07-16 at 17:21 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> So I have been snooping around the system and found this message in
> the lshw command:
> *-generic DISABLED
> description: Wireless interface
> product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
> vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
> logical name: wlp2s0
> version: ff
> serial: 3e:c2:77:77:6a:31
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 66MHz
> capabilities: bus_master vga_palette cap_list ethernet physical
> wireless
> configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8821ce driverversion=5.10.0-
> 23-amd64 firmware=N/A latency=255 link=no maxlatency=255 mingnt=255
> multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
> resources: irq:129 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:df000000-df00ffff
>
> Could this be part of the problem. I have no wifi so that is part of
> the problem. This is Disabled so how do I enable it?
> Thank you guys for being patient with this old lady..
> Moe
>
>
Hi, Maureen!
I don't mean to butt in, but just wanted to give you some
reassurance/encouragement. The wireless adapter you have certainly
should work (barring a hardware problem). I have the same exact one,
and it works fine!
I am running Debian 12 (Bookworm) now, but the setup was upgraded in
2023-06 from Debian 11 (Bullseye). It worked fine on Debian 11
(Bullseye), at least under Debian 11.6.
>From my current setup:
lshw:
. . .
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network
Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 00
serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8821ce
driverversion=6.1.0-10-amd64 firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no
multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:135 ioport:3000(size=256)
memory:70800000-7080ffff
. . .
from lsmod:
. . .
rtw88_8821c 90112 1 rtw88_8821ce
rtw88_pci 28672 1 rtw88_8821ce
. . .
rtw88_core 192512 2 rtw88_pci,rtw88_8821c
. . .
And firmware-realtek is installed.
>From sudo aptitude show firmware-realtek:
Package: firmware-realtek
Version: 20230210-5
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: non-free-firmware/kernel
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 7,046 k
Suggests: initramfs-tools
Description: Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
This package contains the binary firmware for Realtek Ethernet, wifi
and Bluetooth adapters
supported by various drivers.
Contents:
. . .
* Realtek RTL8821C Bluetooth config (rtl_bt/rtl8821c_config.bin,
rtl_bt/rtl8821a_config.bin)
* Realtek RTL8821C Bluetooth firmware (rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin)
. . .
However, I am puzzled as to why aptitude says firmware-realtek is:
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
since I never installed it manually, the wireless adapter just worked
"right out of the box".
Note: Debian 11 was originally installed using using the Debian 11.6
"nonfree" iso.
Hope this helps. Otherwise, feel free to disregard.
