/ubuntu-offline-drivers-install

Set of scripts for Ubuntu 18.04+ for helping with offline driver installation.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

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This project aims to simplify WiFi drivers installation on computers with WiFi chips not supported by the Linux kernel out of the box.

Usage

Source machine

  1. Clone repo on a system with active network connection (source machine)
  2. Run ./download for start *.deb packages and drivers downloading. Files will be downloaded to deb and drivers directories accordingly

Target machine

  1. Copy repo with downloaded files to machine without network connection (target machine)
  2. Run ./install-deb for installation of downloaded deb packages. It will install everything you need for drivers compilation and installation
  3. Reboot for loading latest installed kernel
  4. Run ./install-drivers for drivers installation

Contents

Below is a list of drivers that is going to be downloaded with download script:

Chip Driver sources Kernel
RTL8812AU https://github.com/gordboy/rtl8812au-5.6.4.2 5.4+
RTL8822BU https://github.com/EntropicEffect/rtl8822bu 5.4+
xpadneo https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo 5.4+

See config.yml for the details.