WiFi dongle RLT8821CU during upgrade to Leap 15.6

[Bill_L]

Will the upgrade via ‘dup’ or from the USB stick from ?eap 15.5 to Leap15.6 automatically install drivers for the RLT8821CU CHIP?

[Sauerland]

It depends on which driver you are using in Leap 15.5…

[Bill_L]

Was worth the ask, thanks.
It is from your repo. Not a problem to change the url to the 15.6 version.

[Sauerland]

Leap 15.6 is shipping an driver for rtl 8821cu:

modinfo rtw88_8821cu
filename:       /lib/modules/6.4.0-150600.23.7-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw88_8821cu.ko.zst
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
description:    Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8821cu driver
author:         Hans Ulli Kroll <linux@ulli-kroll.de>
suserelease:    SLE15-SP6
srcversion:     2375125DA49719D349F608E
alias:          usb:v7392pD811d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v7392pC811d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v2001p331Dd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC82Cd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC82Bd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC82Ad*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC821d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC820d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC811d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApC80Cd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApB82Bd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDApB820d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDAp8811d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDAp8731d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0BDAp2006d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
depends:        rtw88_usb,usbcore,rtw88_8821c
supported:      no
retpoline:      Y
intree:         Y
name:           rtw88_8821cu
vermagic:       6.4.0-150600.23.7-default SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 
sig_id:         PKCS#7
signer:         SUSE Linux Enterprise Secure Boot CA
sig_key:        CA:FC:B5:D7:5E:C5:89:82
sig_hashalgo:   sha256
signature:      37:3D:8C:F5:38:51:BB:66:6D:06:FE:AC:75:31:DC:CA:3A:57:E9:A8:
                8A:A8:74:59:E3:89:A4:BE:5C:72:B0:38:ED:D8:82:5B:FD:16:01:21:
                13:97:81:C1:EF:5E:EB:9C:4D:16:53:9E:54:0C:46:41:23:DC:93:CB:
                46:CC:84:77:94:36:C4:B6:56:69:D1:74:71:74:B6:5A:62:5C:9A:6A:
                BC:60:43:95:87:8B:8B:C1:77:3F:C5:4E:0A:BA:38:23:BE:13:4C:BC:
                C0:92:68:0C:4C:81:31:AA:A7:A6:F8:7E:42:19:B5:92:9D:C0:D4:E0:
                13:01:5B:A4:91:AC:C2:9C:F3:8A:15:30:52:67:98:E4:6C:46:C5:FF:
                0B:6E:91:EA:5D:7A:6F:4C:48:D6:B7:BC:44:72:C2:28:C3:08:2C:2A:
                76:8E:BD:32:73:4F:F9:81:64:4B:B5:1A:2F:7F:D6:86:69:95:15:FE:
                A5:69:B6:31:BD:FE:5E:E7:8B:E4:B6:45:C3:FC:37:19:19:3B:2B:57:
                E6:FE:6B:71:FF:0F:63:01:B6:4E:83:28:A2:A8:30:20:3A:BD:0F:B5:
                5E:F0:50:94:E8:08:CD:8E:9F:DD:3C:62:1E:1F:B6:AF:C7:36:EA:E4:
                FB:66:05:93:B3:DE:AC:12:29:F6:3F:5E:72:0B:CB:19

But your installed driver (rtw88 or rtl8821cu) maybe can be problematic.
So it is on you…

[Bill_L]

If I can not ‘uninstall’ the driver from your repo, then I will keep it.
If I can uninstall your driver, then I take a chance of the 15.6 shipped version not working??
It’s a Rock & hard place sort of situation,

[Sauerland]

You can do an Upgrade with zypper to Leap 15.6 by swithing the URL of the Repos to from 15.5 to 15.6. and let my Repo (with new URL) enabled on upgrade.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade#Migration_to_a_new_Leap_release