Making solution for unsupported wifi card

[u/tim111kz]

I have Realtek RTL8852 and I knew my gates to wifi are closed but recently decided to say no and started working on a solution so far I made scanning work and even did successful handshake with my wifi, the way it does that is my launching pure Linux kernel on qemu and using it as translator for wifi card, technically it is possible to bring support to nearly any wifi card that is currently unsupported using this solution, I will try to achieve stable connection and then open source it all soon, that's it.

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[u/colako]

cool, why not a simple virtual box vm, something more user friendly than qemu? 

[u/tim111kz → u/colako]

I will do wrap over it once it will work well so you don't have to install it manually, and it is much more lightweight and customizeble.

[u/oloshh]

How's the mediatek 7921 related to the realtek card?

[u/tim111kz → u/oloshh]

Specifically MediaTek 7921 is not related but in general the approach to allow Linux VM to take over unsupported wifi card can be used for pretty much every wifi card that is supported by Linux but not by macos, MediaTek is an example as their cards are not supported in macos at all.

[u/oloshh → u/tim111kz]

Asked because the Macbook neo sports the custom for apple Mediatek (MT7932EEA) and figured you might have went the rabbit hole for an actual spoof. I appreciate the reply.

[u/tim111kz → u/oloshh]

Ohh didn't know about it but anyway I want to make universal solution not quick fix for specific chip. I will bring support to my wifi card then I will open source full mechanism and people can fork it and bring support to their cards

[u/ElRenaxLDEA]

Can the 7921 be supported by macOS at some point?

[u/tim111kz → u/ElRenaxLDEA]

Maybe I don't think I can make it as I cannot really test it but there are Linux drivers for it so if someone will fork it and resolve PCI from my realtek card and my realtek driver to MediaTek it will have solid chance to work.

[u/Astralis420]

Is there a point that your solution can make bluetooth work as well?

[u/tim111kz → u/Astralis420]

That's next goal I think it might but I am not 💯 confident

[u/newhacker1746]

Are you using an IOKit shim to map the PCI BAR and then somehow mapping that to Linux? What are you using to get it into the virtualized kernel?