Well - what I have might not work in the end. The sound driver I have was only needed for stock kernels - the other machine with the ESSX8336 card only likes 6.2 kernels and up. But, as it went for me: stock kernel, no WiFi no sound. Grabbed both drivers - works on stock kernel (this was with Mint MATE). But, if I don't grab any drivers, and just update the kernel - WiFi works! No sound, but internet does work. I had to use the 1.7 SOF driver, downgrade, run the amixer cset commands again - then update the sound driver to 2.0+, and still worked.. weird. . But, before trying what I've got --
The link posted does say, and know from experience messing with it, that those drivers are added in later kernels. For my card, it worked with 6.2 kernels and up - not sure what the most recent one is, but could definitely try a 6.x kernel version:
And if that doesn't immediately work - then I'll work on getting a link to what I've got to try out. And what I've got is sudo dpkg -i *.deb && sudo ./make.sh and it does the downgrade, install, and copy all the files from the folders over to firmware. There are two manual copies to make, but that's all in the Readme.MD - can just copy / paste in terminal.
I know.. it's kind of.. a lot lol I was really bashing my head against the wall with this one myself. I've made 100 copies of the firmware I have so I don't lose it either 