ETA on OLED Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers

[jpar]

It states:

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers for Windows on Steam Deck OLED are currently being worked on, and will be available soon.

[Silicon Vampire]

Soon=Valve Time

Undetermined. Could be a very long time.

[Ledezark]

I have been wondering the exact same thing. When will the Wifi, Bluetooth & Audio drivers be available? The way the Steam Deck is marketed is as if you can tailor it to your needs, but as of right now that does not seem true.

I bought the OLED with dual booting Windows in mind. While I do love a lot of the features on SteamOS. There is a game I want to play that only runs perfectly on Windows and I just so happen to want to play it the most. More than my steam library.

I also know that there are unofficial ways to dual boot on the Deck but I would prefer to officially dual boot.

This situation makes me question my purchase.

[Meeoh]

Steam ETA: when it's done

[sunspark]

You can officially dual boot using an external drive, whether USB or SD.. It's a UEFI bios.

As for setting it up all nice and pretty on the internal drive instead, Microsoft doesn't support making a dual-boot system. That's up to you, so it's a little strange how the expectation from everyone is that Linux must always bend over backwards to accommodate Windows in some manner, but the obverse is not true.

[jpar]

Ive given up, the drivers could come tomorrow or come next month. Ill just use gaming mode and linux desktop I guess.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by jpar:

Ive given up, the drivers could come tomorrow or come next month. Ill just use gaming mode and linux desktop I guess.

Valve does not announce when they are delivering them. They just pop up and then there is an announcement. With that, you are correct they could come tomorrow, next month or even later. We won't know until it happens.

[jpar]

Not being able to adjust brightness is not an acceptable driver solution

[Reign of Swords]

I have Windows 10 on the Oled, have the Lenovo WiFi driver and all works perfectly aside from no audio. I can get audio through wired headphones so not that bad.

Any alternatives out there though for any audio drivers please?

[Hiro]

I guess they will land when they are ready to be used.

Other PC Handheld Manufacturer that ship with Windows never release a proper Linux driver, you need to figure out how to make them work.

You should be glad that Valve is going the extra mile to deliver Windows drivers :)

[Hiro]

Originally posted by Ledezark:

I bought the OLED with dual booting Windows in mind. (...) There is a game I want to play that only runs perfectly on Windows and I just so happen to want to play it the most. More than my steam library. (...)

This situation makes me question my purchase.

If windows was so important for you why did you buy a Linux handheld?
There are so many options out there that come with Windows by default...

[Ledezark]

Originally posted by Hiro:

Originally posted by Ledezark:

I bought the OLED with dual booting Windows in mind. (...) There is a game I want to play that only runs perfectly on Windows and I just so happen to want to play it the most. More than my steam library. (...)

This situation makes me question my purchase.

If windows was so important for you why did you buy a Linux handheld?
There are so many options out there that come with Windows by default...

I bought it because this community hyped it up all around the internet and I wanted to give it a chance to see if it could fit my use case, plus the marketing promises by Valve themselves which is how I ended up coming to this thread.

*I’m also no longer waiting on Valve to officially support dual booting Windows on the SD.

[YooBa]

Happy no new Year Drivers for Windows !!

[abdulkerimak]

You can use any wifi driver for atheros

Originally posted by Ledezark:

I have been wondering the exact same thing. When will the Wifi, Bluetooth & Audio drivers be available? The way the Steam Deck is marketed is as if you can tailor it to your needs, but as of right now that does not seem true.

I bought the OLED with dual booting Windows in mind. While I do love a lot of the features on SteamOS. There is a game I want to play that only runs perfectly on Windows and I just so happen to want to play it the most. More than my steam library.

I also know that there are unofficial ways to dual boot on the Deck but I would prefer to officially dual boot.

This situation makes me question my purchase.

For the wifi driver, you can use any qualcomm atheros chipset drivers, for example > https://oemdrivers.com/network-qualcomm-qcnfa765

Bluetooth still no go unfortunately. But these are basic components I'm quite sure these problems will be solved. But as you said if windows is your first priority I advise you to go back other devices, you will be happier.

When I bought deck oled, with same a mount of money i can also buy rog ally which is more powerful device. Also I'm quite sure you can run linux from microsd if you want in ally too. But None of the games I wanted to play needed too much compute power, and oled screen is much better than other handheld devices IMHO. Plus deck community is awesome, its broaden possibilities of the deck which i'm grateful... but again this is a handheld 'gaming' device in that regard others also doing fine. There is no perfect device for everyone or anyone... you have to compromise thats the reality of our lifes isnt int (:

[YooBa]

Fortunately, the wifi works, my console is more portable... with a hanging USB habe with JACK headphones connected (no 3D audio), and a cable for a wireless BT controller.

[Knoxin]

Originally posted by Silicon Vampire:

Soon=Valve Time

Undetermined. Could be a very long time.

Half life 2 all over again :/ did they say they was bringing there dual boot solution as well haha, come on valve