So recently I bought a new USB WiFi device. It is the the the Alfa AWUS036ACH. There’s a reason why I this, this device is using the rtl8812au which have linux drivers.
But as it turns out, the rtl8812au driver on Ubuntu repo at least for 20.04 LTS don’t actually work. Here’s how I get this to work.
First use the driver from Aircrack-ng, https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/
git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/
Then you need to edit the makefile. Do the following.
- Edit Makefile in the directory. Find the following line
DRIVER_VERSION = $(shell grep "#define DRIVERVERSION" include/rtw_version.h | awk '{print $$3}' | tr -d v\")
- Change to, essentially add a
\to#escape the character
DRIVER_VERSION = $(shell grep "\#define DRIVERVERSION" include/rtw_version.h | awk '{print $$3}' | tr -d v\")
Then run the following command
sudo make dkms_install
Reboot you’re in business! Now enjoy your 5GHz wifi with 802.11ac on your ubuntu box. Also
