Response below/inline for email Anssi Saari wrote: > (original email sent 12 Feb 2026 at 12:41) > > Is there a page which says whether that thing needs external firmware or > not? Such that can be found in the firmware-realtek package, for > example?
Interesting. I do have firmware-realtek installed so decided to sudo dpkg-reconfigure firmware-realtek which updated the initramfs (which I believe it did before but just in case) and now, after rebooting, the NetworkManager applet does show a WiFi section but says that the device is not managed. This is a step forward as before there was no WiFi at all. The nmtui program says that Wi-Fi is enabled both hardware and software but doesn't let me configure it. In the system logs, I see: [ 8.830278] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtw_8822bu [ 8.834456] rtw_8822bu 2-4:1.0 wlx3c52a1c369c7: renamed from wlan0 [...] [ 50.869339] rtw_8822bu 2-4:1.0: firmware failed to leave lps state so the driver is actually found but there seems to be a problem. I continue to investigate... Thanks, eric -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 31.0.50 2026-02-11) on Debian 13.3
