On Sun, Nov 16, 2025, at 5:15 AM, Heppler, J. Scott wrote:
> Just a heads up.  On the US market, it is getting hard to find newer
> generation motherboards without integrated wifi.  Mother board
> manufacturer's are also not forth coming on the wifi chips they solder in
> place.
>
> On a budget build ASrock B450m/AC r2.0, Linux shows the chip to be an
> unsupported rtl8821ce. If support is easy to add, it would be worthwhile
> as it is likely to be applied as widely Realtek NIC chips.  If it's
> difficult to add, OpenBSD users should avoid paying any premium for an
> unsupported feature.

I've begun work on this driver which includes support for the RTL8821BE and RTL8821CE chips. There is still a lot of work to be done on this before it is usable. It should be noted that even when there is support for these cards, they are of mediocre stability. If you're wanting to run an AP there might be better options. That being said, I do think its important to have good support for a card like this that does HostAP in this form factor. 
bmercer