Maintenance after Debian Trixie

[MaxG87]

I recently migrated to Debian Trixie (which is still testing). Since then I have the drivers rtw88_8822b and rtw88_8822bu available by the distribution. Therefore, I am no longer dog-footing the driver.

I think, soon the repository will not be required any more. I think it is reasonable to continue maintenance until the release of Debian Trixie. After that, I consider to stop fixing compilation issues.

Are there any thoughts on this? Should a remark on this be added to the README, so others can prepare or ask for longer support?

[cilynx]

Agreed. Readme has been updated with commentary on mainline and a link to this issue for anyone interested to comment.

[S-K-Tiger]

For me when using rtw88_8822bu I found that, when attempting to connect to a network using saved credentials, it would ask for credentials and ask again if provided repeatedly. Installing rtl88x2bu has fixed this issue for me.

System info

Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-31-generic (64-bit)
[...]
System Version: 2.0

Device info

  idVendor           0x2357 TP-Link
  idProduct          0x0115 Archer T4U ver.3
  bcdDevice            2.10
  iManufacturer           1 Realtek
  iProduct                2 802.11ac NIC