09-01-2023, 01:13 PM
(08-28-2023, 12:01 PM)tophneal Wrote:(08-27-2023, 06:34 PM)acruhl Wrote:(06-12-2023, 12:40 PM)acruhl Wrote: 2. Is there a such thing as a supported WiFi and bluetooth adapter which is combined into 1 device? I use bluetooth pretty often. I have an adapter that should work, I just don't want to use a hub so I can have both devices active at once.
Partial answer to this:
I bought a TP-LinkNano 2-in-1 AC600 USB adapter (very small) and it works with Fedora on my Pinebook Pro. I tested WiFi and Bluetooth and they both work. Don't know how this helps the Pine Tab 2 though, there doesn't seem to be a driver in any Arch based ARM distribution I think.
This is what it looks like on Manjaro on my Pinebook Pro in dmesg:
[ 1598.596949] usb 3-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-platform
[ 1598.759269] usb 3-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=c820, bcdDevice= 2.00
[ 1598.759321] usb 3-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1598.759344] usb 3-1.1: Product: 802.11ac NIC
[ 1598.759363] usb 3-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 1598.759380] usb 3-1.1: SerialNumber: 123456
[ 1598.786440] Bluetooth: hci1: RTL: examining hci_ver=08 hci_rev=000c lmp_ver=08 lmp_subver=8821
[ 1598.787359] Bluetooth: hci1: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
[ 1598.787375] Bluetooth: hci1: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin
[ 1598.793884] Bluetooth: hci1: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8821c_config.bin
[ 1598.795210] Bluetooth: hci1: RTL: cfg_sz 10, total sz 34926
[ 1599.260303] Bluetooth: hci1: RTL: fw version 0x75b8f098
[ 1599.335654] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
You're in luck, Manjaro is Archbased, so if it works there, you can get it working in Arch too. Here's a driver for that chipset in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8821ce-dkms-git
It doesn't work with Majaro, I was just copying out the dmesg. It works in Fedora. I'll check out the driver. I haven't messed with Linux kernel stuff in a very long time.
