RTL8852AU

Running a Beelink SER7 device with the bazzite-deck image. The device has a barely usable WiFi/Bluetooth configuration so I bought external adapters. The Bluetooth one works (I think it’s AX200) but the RTL8852AU adapter doesn’t have a kernel module as reported by

lsusb -t

lsusb -t

lsusb -t

lsusb -t (it says “[none]”). On Arch and other distros with dkms I can just add it as a dkms module, which Bazzite and Silverblue don’t seem to have. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8852au

What’s the most straightforward way to get this working on Bazzite? Getting an Intel based adapter isn’t an option atm (I can’t return the one I got to the store)

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Kyle Gospo•1/1/25, 5:26 PM

The only way you could make this work is by creating a custom image

Kyle Gospo•1/1/25, 5:26 PM

You can't layer drivers and we will not include out of tree Wi-Fi drivers due to them usually being either terrible quality, or breaking existing hardware, which is why they are not upstreamed

כוכב_נופל1999OP•1/1/25, 5:36 PM

Gotcha. I’ll give it away to a friend with a Windows device and I’ll get an EDUP EP-AX1673 which seems to have an MT7921U, should be in-tree for 5.11 and newer I believe?

כוכב_נופל1999OP•1/1/25, 5:37 PM

Once that arrives how would I disable the built in AX200? On other systems I’d add a blacklist iwlwifiblacklist iwlwifi and blacklist wlblacklist wl to modprobe. Don’t have a toggle in bios unfortunately

Kyle Gospo•1/1/25, 5:40 PM

AX200 is Intel and fully supported

Kyle Gospo•1/1/25, 5:40 PM

No need to disable that

כוכב_נופל1999OP•1/1/25, 5:43 PM

The computer has a terrible configuration with horrendous antenna placements, and any kind of load on the APU makes the built-in Bluetooth and WiFi pretty much stop working for a good minute

כוכב_נופל1999OP•1/1/25, 5:44 PM

I think it might be due to interference or whatever and the fact the case is all metal.. to avoid the interference with wireless adapters people use USB extension cords

כוכב_נופל1999OP•1/1/25, 5:45 PM

Reason I want to disable it is to reduce interference.. ~~unless disabling it in networkmanager is good enough?~~ (doesn’t seem to be possible)

RTL8852AU

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