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theasmitkid

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From: NCT of Delhi

Registered: 2025-01-26

Posts: 345

Driver for RTL8821AE

Had issues with this certain device since i started using Linux.. but manually compiling this finally got it working as good as windows, driver for RTL8821AE was added to the repo a few days before this post!

Follow installation guide from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88

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onuracengiz

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Registered: 2025-12-21

Posts: 26

Re: Driver for RTL8821AE

RTL8723BE/RTL8821AE/RTL8822BE/RTL8821CE/RTL8723DE are in the same group (also stated as in your link)
https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?c … enu_id=297 (and in here)

I have also found these;
https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:10ec-8821-17aa-a814
https://github.com/rapyuta-robotics/rtl8821ae-dkms
https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce
https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/lat … l819x.html
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/ … ltek/rtw88
https://github.com/dkms-project/dkms

https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Rtw88 (wide range of chips)