Re: [LUG] Getting a USB AC68 dongle to work in Mint 19.3

[Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/04/20 21:49, comrade meowski wrote:
> On 09/04/2020 16:36, Julian Hall wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> Damn, we may well have been wasting time because we didn't research well
> enough to start with... You'd think I'd know better than that by now but
> never mind.
>
> Ok, proper solution #take2:
>
> Let's dump out the old driver entirely, it's not working:
>
> sudo dkms remove -m 8812au -v 4.2.2 --all
>
> Following more up to date information from this year and inline with my
> own advice about using injection-capable hacked up drivers instead let's
> crib from here:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042310/install-driver-rtl8814au-on-ubuntu-18-04
>
> https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=55348&sid=4b730bff9198f5203bcde57b11d90424&start=10#p552025
>
>
> Presuming you're working in /home/Julian/SRC remove or delete the old
> rtl8812au directory as it will clash with the new one we'll download:
>
> cd ~/SRC
> mv rtl8812au rtl8812au-NOPE
>
> Clone the new repo from aircrack-ng:
>
> git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git
> cd rtl8812au
> sudo apt install bc build-essentials -y #just prereq installs
>
> Use their handy dkms setup script:
>
> sudo ./dkms-install.sh
> * dkms status
>
> On my system (I've grepped just the relevant results, your kernel will be
> different) this looks like:
>
> comrade@drone:~/SRC/rtl8812au$ dkms status | grep coldwar
> nvidia, 440.82, 5.6.0-pf2-coldwar+, x86_64: installed
> rtl8812au, 5.6.4.2, 5.6.0-pf2-coldwar+, x86_64: installed
> zenpower, 0.1.10, 5.6.0-pf2-coldwar+, x86_64: installed
> zfs, 0.8.3, 5.6.0-pf2-coldwar+, x86_64: installed
>
> Pretty much the same as before, but note the much higher revision number
> for the driver (5.6.4.2 vs 4.2.2). Now all of this worked perfectly for
> me but please bear in mind I don't have the actual wifi unit and am
> working blind so who knows how it will go with the real one. Let's find
> out I guess?
>
> Finally, I'd just leave it in place and reboot the whole box to see what
> happens on login. If you don't have an available wifi network device pop
> up as usual then we're back to examining what went wrong and examining
> the options.
>
> Fingers crossed, this one looks more promising.
>
> Good luck chief.
>
Subtly different Product ID, but I did spot this Issue with the aircrack
repo: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/issues/452

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