Realtek RTW88-rtwpci New WIFI Driver Starting at Kernel 5.2-rc1 Gnome 20190524-21

We were not using Gnome DE because the old WIFI Kernel driver (r8822be) was not as robust compared to KDE. This new Kernel 5.2 driver runs very well on Gnome (20190521 Fresh Install) and so far we are not losing the signal intermittently.

Installing Torbrowser launcher for the first time is an indication of how good-fast is wireless response. Same for adding ublock origin to it and for browsing or even to get dup. On top of that, there is a speed gain of 25% over the latest stable Kernel: 5.1.4-1.1.

inxi -N
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter driver: rtw_pci

sudo modinfo rtwpci | grep depends
[sudo] password for root: 
depends:        mac80211,rtw88

sudo modinfo rtw88 | grep depends
depends:        mac80211,cfg80211

rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
kernel-default-5.1.4-1.1.x86_64
patterns-devel-base-devel_kernel-20170319-8.2.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.2.rc1-2.1.gb225e5a.noarch
kernel-syms-5.2.rc1-2.1.gb225e5a.x86_64
kernel-source-5.2.rc1-2.1.gb225e5a.noarch
kernel-default-5.2.rc1-2.1.gb225e5a.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.1.4-1.1.noarch
kernel-macros-5.2.rc1-2.1.gb225e5a.noarch
kernel-default-devel-5.2.rc1-2.1.gb225e5a.x86_64
kernel-firmware-20190514-260.1.noarch
kernel-default-devel-5.1.4-1.1.x86_64

The least we can say is that for Gnome it’s a real improvement.

Thanks to Realtek Corporation for their contribution on Kernel 5.2. Special thank’s to the Kernel team, we appreciate your work and efforts.

Regards,