rtl8812au-installer
Installer/reloader for the rtl8812au wireless driver (https://github.com/gnab/rtl8812au)
What is this?
The installer that came with the gnab driver never really cut it for me. I always had the problem that I needed to physically remove and plug in the the wifi device after an install and sometimes after a reboot.
What it does?
This python script will install unzip the package, place the driver in the net/wireless folder, and inserts the driver, removes it and then inserts it again. I found this fixed my problems of needing to reinsert the physical wifi device.
How to use it.
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Place in the same directory as the rtl8812au-master.zip file.
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It needs to be run as root and needs either install (for a full install) or a reload (to reload the module, the insert, remove insert process I described) as a command line parameter.
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To run use
sudo ./installWifiDriver installorsudo ./installWifiDriver reloadfrom the directory where it has been placed.
A nice customisation, should you choose to, would be to place it in /usr/bin and then hardcode the location of your rtl8812au-master.zip file so that it can be run from any directory.