On 05/03/18 20:29, Nick Howitt wrote:
On 05/03/2018 20:24, Nick Howitt wrote:
On 05/03/2018 20:16, Phil Perry wrote:
On 05/03/18 09:35, Nick Howitt wrote:
Hi,
I have a little USB 802.11ac dongle that I'm trying to get going in
my server. lsusb gives:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:a811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
RTL8811AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter
I've had a look at the current kmod driver which is version
8188eu-kmod-4.1.4_6773.20130222-3 and it does not cover the USB ID.
Looking at the spec file in the src rpm it points me to
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu but there is no useful update
there.
There appear to be a few sources for this driver such as
https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux and
https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU which both cover the USB
ID. Are you able to work your magic on one of these or any other
relevant version you can find?
Many thanks,
Nick
Sure, I can take a look but it probably won't be before the weekend.
Do either of those driver sources compile / work for you? The first
one looks more maintained so I'd probably start with that. I couldn't
find any linux driver/source on the Realtek website for your device,
only for Windows. I wonder where these (above) driver sources
originated?
Phil
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Hi Phil,
I have not tried compiling anything because I don't know what magic
you do. I can give it a go and see what happens. I am puzzled about
the sources because I tried searching github for rtl8188au and only
the lwfinger sources appeared so I must searching incorrectly. I agree
about the realtek site. I tried searching there as well.
Yours puzzled,
Nick
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Google-fu working better:
https://github.com/zebulon2/rtl8812au-driver-5.2.20 and
https://github.com/gordboy/rtl8812au. I've never compiled dkms stuff
before ....
Nick
These are originally imported from Realtek. For example, see the Realtek
changelog from your last link:
https://github.com/gordboy/rtl8812au/blob/a20632c756bd8bd84eb1cb93ac6609d11cd87343/Realtek_Changelog.txt
Still, briefly looking at the code I anticipate huge issues getting the
code to build on el7. The issue is the code uses many conditionals based
on the linux kernel version. The code views the el7 kernel as a 3.10
kernel, but Red Hat has backported the wireless stack from kernel-4.11
in el7.4 which is most likely why your builds fail.
To be brutally honest, it's generally not worth the effort trying to fix
this, as even if we do fix it, it will break again next month when Red
Hat release el7.5 with a backported wireless stack based upon
kernel-4.14. Rather than me/us trying to fix it, I would request Realtek
provide a driver that supports RHEL and let them do the hard work, or
not buy their hardware.
I would put your unsupported hardware back in it's box and stick it on a
shelf until such time as it is natively supported, and buy something
that works out of the box. For example, I recently purchased an Edimax
N150 nano USB adapter (EW-7811Un) for less than $10 on Amazon which is
natively supported and works fine out of the box on el7 (based on
Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset, uses the rtl8192cu driver), replacing a
failing internal WiFi adapter in my laptop.
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