Wavlink AX1800 WiFi6 WL-WN693X1 - Realtek RTL8832BU not working

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Hello everybody.
I have a USB WiFi network card available.
Manufacturer and model
Wavlink AX1800 WiFi6 WL-WN693X1
that uses the chip
Realtek RTL8832BU.
It’s a card that should be quite powerful and I would like to try to get it working in my OpenSUSE 15.5 computer.
It seems to me that there are no suitable drivers available in the repositories.
I also tried searching on the Internet and found two in GitHub, but they need to be compiled, and the compilation doesn’t work.
By any chance does anyone have a USB WiFi card with a Realtek RTL8832BU chip and was able to get it to work properly?
Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m not very familiar with configuring network cards so I could use some help diagnosing the problem.
Below are some results of commands that perhaps can be useful, then tell me what else to do.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.

~> lsusb
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0bda:b832 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac WLAN Adapter

~> sudo hwinfo --wlan
(no result)

~> usb-devices
T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  4 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0bda ProdID=b832 Rev=00.00
S:  Manufacturer=Realtek
S:  Product=802.11ac WLAN Adapter
S:  SerialNumber=00e04c000001
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=500mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 8 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=05(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=06(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=07(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=09(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=0a(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=0b(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=0c(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=84(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms

~> sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.
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You can try using the hardware repo:

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/15.5/

which has drivers for Realtek WiFi. Or maybe try installing Leap 15.6 Beta, which comes with support for Realtek WiFi.

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Drivers for rtl8852au and rtl8852bu are not yet in the kernel.

Try the ones from this Repo:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Sauerland:/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/

The Packages are:
rtl8852bu-conf
rtl8852bu-kmp-default
rtl8852bu-ueficert

If you are using secure boot, you have to add on reboot the cert to the mok datase such as here the Nvidia ones:
Mok Example

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I already have the hardware repository active but the driver versions present do not work with this card.
Anyway, thank you for the advice.

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Works!!
Thank You very much.
I tried searching for a while but couldn’t find this.
I am very grateful to you, this card is really powerful, it has very powerful reception / transmission.
I am very pleased to have been able, thanks to you, to configure and use it.
Thank you!

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Add that Repo and you will get a newer one if something changes…

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