Hello nido! The best way to find if a wireless chipset is supported is to use the "apropos" functionality of the manpages.
<http://man.openbsd.org/?query=wireless&apropos=1&sec=0&arch=default&manpath=OpenBSD-7.6> just go to man.openbsd.org if not on an OpenBSD machine, and search "wireless" using apropos. if on an OpenBSD machine, "apropos wireless" will do the same thing. look through the manpages this returns and see if your wireless chipset is listed. on openbsd, the name of the wireless interface shares its name with the driver. so if for example I had a intel centrino chip, which is supported via the iwn(4) driver, the interface name would be iwn0 also, refer to the faq for actually connecting to a wireless network: <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless> after a cursory glance, I can't see that OpenBSD supports your rtw8821 chip, if it were supported, you would already see the interface name matching the driver in ifconfig -A if its a laptop or tower that can do this, I highly recommend swapping the wifi card for a compatible intel chipset, they are in my experience, the most reliable option. note, you *do* need firmware for these, but you can grab these from the net using fw_update(8) automatically, or, you can load them offline off of removable media using the same command, and instead dowloading from: <http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/> I wish you luck! thanks. -------- Original Message -------- From: nido <nido3...@gmail.com> Sent: December 6, 2024 2:39:11 PM CST To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Nice day to all OpenBSD users! I would like to know if the PCIe WLAN with Bluetooth 5.0 Single-Chip "RTL8821CE" is able to load in OpenBSD. Ive installed the system, but after the first boot, i couldnt find any mention of it when typing "ifconfig -A". At FreeBSD, my main system by now, this device shows up in ifconfig output as "wlan0", and the parent interface section is followed by the expected name "rtw880". I am somewhat confused since it appears that OpenBSD have support for "rtw" devices, but im not sure if "rtw880" forms actually a part of this devices. If you could tell me if theres a way to use this chip (or definitely not) on OpenBSD, i would really appreciate it. I am a beginner at working with this system, but i will try to give all the information you need in case you could help me with this. -- Sent from a mobile, please excuse shitty formatting.
