8812au-20210629 VS rtl8814au

I've been trying for a few hours now to install drivers for a rtl8812au based usb wifi adapter (Edimax-7822ULC/UTC) on a nanopi r6c running kernel version 5.10.110. Zero luck with both the manufacturer driver for ubuntu and with an open source one-size-fits-all (https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629). When running the manual install for morrownr's open source driver, I'm getting this error:

Is this a non-standart kali vm? If yes and you are learning, never sudo apt update/upgrade unless specifically told by your instructor. The adapter works for me with the drivers and intructions on github link

I have a dongle with that chipset, used it couple of times, worked fine. The driver I used is from here https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629

Unofficially, the chipset itself seems to be the Realtek RTL8812AU chipset, which does have community support up to the current 6.1 kernel, but latest tested on Fedora is 5.11. (it will probably work, but honestly it's still a gamble). The work seems to mostly spur from the AUR repository, which links here.

As seen in the picture, every other ping seems to be about one second long and every other somewhat it should be. Pinging directly my Router via WLAN. There are different drivers available for the RTL8812AU, currently using this one: github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629. The same issue persists using other drivers available. Power saving settings for the adapter are turned off, no effect.

The driver is available on github.

git clone https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629.git

I had to reinstall a newer version of my driver ---> https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629/issues/67

First you will need to find out which version you have. Version one or two (this one) will need this driver. For version three (this one) you will need this driver.

dkms helps with keeping a module working across Linux kernel upgrades (I use RTL8812AU, but RTL8814AU is problematic [1] being broken. I also use dkms + ZFS on Proxmox and Ubuntu), but other than that don't upgrade Linux kernel, unless you have to. I guess OpenBSD doesn't include the binary blobs, but back in the days (about 10-15 years ago) I used to have a stable WLAN on OpenBSD, on a Soekris. This was 802.11n (later rebranded WiFi 4), I don't now about 802.11ac / WiFi 5. Worked perfectly fine. IIRC it was either Atheros or IWL.

[1] https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8814au

git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8814au.gitcd rtl8814ausudo apt updatesudo apt install dkmssudo apt install build-essential libelf-devsudo apt install raspberrypi-kernel-headerssed -i 's/CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = y/CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n/g' Makefilesed -i 's/CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = n/CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = y/g' Makefileexport ARCH=armsed -i 's/^MAKE="/MAKE="ARCH=arm\ /' dkms.confsudo make dkms_install

The driver hasn't been updated yet to support your Linux kernel version. Any one below 5.9 is okay, so you should downgrade to 5.4 as that the latest Long Term Support kernel below that.

Has anyone been able to make this work? Before 21.04 release, I was using this method and it worked, but not anymore.

I'm trying to install this on Pop! OS using this GitHub.Link. But it's simply not working. It was working for Kernel before 5.13.

I have also followed this afterwards https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8814au/issues/32

git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8814au.git

Package: realtek-rtl8814au-dkms Version: 5.8.5.1~git20210331.bdf80b5-0kali1 Priority: optional Section: contrib/kernel Maintainer: Kali Developers Installed-Size: 13.5 MB Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0) Homepage: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8814au Download-Size: 1601 kB APT-Sources: http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/contrib armhf Packages Description: Realtek RTL8814AU driver in DKMS format This package provides the source code for RTL8814AU Linux driver (with monitor mode and frame injection) to be build with dkms. Kernel sources or headers are required to compile this module.