2.2 KiB
Realtek 8822BU driver for Linux
Driver for 802.11ac USB Adapter with RTL8822BU chipset.
Currently, only STA/Monitor Mode is supported, no AP.
A few known wireless cards that use this driver include
Prerequisite
On Debian and Ubuntu, install packages via apt:
$ sudo apt install dpkg-dev
$ sudo apt install build-essential libc6-dev linux-headers-`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH`
On the other distros, please refer their build instruction for kernel modules (Because I don't know so much any other than Debian/Ubuntu). And it would be appriciated if you would tell me the way.
Build and install.
Currently tested with Linux kernel 4.13.10 and 4.14.2 on X86_64 platform only.
To build, you have to retrieve source and run make.
If via Git, do following:
$ git clone https://github.com/FomalhautWeisszwerg/rtl8822bu.git
$ cd rtl8822bu
$ make
$ sudo make install
Or via tarball, do:
$ curl -LO https://github.com/FomalhautWeisszwerg/rtl8822bu/archive/release-for-linux-4.14.tar.gz
$ tar -xf release-for-linux-4.14.tar.gz
$ cd rtl8822bu-release-for-linux-4.14/
$ make
$ sudo make install
To Unload driver you may need to disconnect the device.
NOTES
This driver allows use of wpa_supplicant by using the nl80211 driver
wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211. If you use "Wicd Network Manager", you can use this driver with the following screenshot settings.
If installing on Rasberry Pi or other "armv71" devices, edit the Makefile and set CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = y and CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
Status
Driver basically works. Most of the work is done is cleaning the driver and make this mess readable for conversion. Updates for wireless-ext/cfg80211 are not accepted.
Bugs
If you find something, please report on GitHub issue.
Also Pull Requests are wellcome :-)