True, I agree. However, the GUI does not let you know about it. You could
put some comments in the description letting know it should be installed
manually, otherwise, a regular user will have a hard time figuring it out.
Anyway, this is just my personal opinion on it.
Best regards,
Jhonny Oliveira
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Ricardo Salveti
wrote:
> I think this is a common issue with dkms modules, since you would need
> to have the key in order to sign the built modules.
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> Title:
> Module does not load in secure mode
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> Status in rtl8812au package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The module does not load with secure boot, as it seems, because it is
> not signed.
>
> I have installed this dkms module with the GUI (Additional Drivers),
> which does not trigger any warning or error.
>
> For that reason I did not immediately understand why it wouldn't load.
>
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '8812au': Required key not available
>
> However, when re-installing it manually, I could clearly see the
> instruction to disable secure boot in order to make it work.
>
> sudo apt-get install rtl8812au-dkms
>
> This should be a problem for regular end-user with little command line
> knowledge.
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