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Mostly fun stuff happens here.

But you're probably here for Realtek support on macOS.

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Projects

Wi-Fi Driver

Feixiao

Native Wi-Fi for Realtek PCIe cards — RTL8822BE/CE, RTL8821CE, RTL8812AE and RTL8814AE — ported from the Linux rtw88 driver.

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Starskiff

Wi-Fi Client

Starskiff

A native menu-bar app for Feixiao. Scan, connect and monitor your connection — built on HeliPort's AppKit interface.

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Bluetooth Firmware

RealtekBluetoothFirmware

A kext that uploads Realtek firmware for native Bluetooth — supporting both v1 (Realtech) and v2 (RTBTCore) formats.

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How it all fits together.

A Realtek combo card needs two drivers — the Wi-Fi radio lives on PCIe, while the Bluetooth radio is an internal USB device. thegwchr covers both halves.

flowchart LR
    rtw88["rtw88-stable<br/>(Linux source)"] --> feixiao["Feixiao<br/>(Wi-Fi kext)"]
    feixiao -- RTW88UserClient API --> starskiff["Starskiff<br/>(or rtw88ctl)"]
    rbf["RealtekBluetoothFirmware<br/>(BT firmware kext)"] --> bt(("Native<br/>Bluetooth"))
    feixiao --> wifi(("Native<br/>Wi-Fi"))

Get a Realtek card working.

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