smac89/rtl8821au

Sources for compiling driver for rtl8821au chipset. Compatible with most kernels

rtl8821AU

This repository contains drivers for RTL8821au.

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(**Staging Build**)

4.4.0-141-generic
4.8.0-58-generic
4.10.0-42-generic
4.11.0-14-generic
4.13.0-45-generic
4.15.0-43-generic

Supports kernel versions

• 2.4 ➜ 4.15 - only installed on v4+ (See above travis status), but should theoretically work for as early as 2.4

Compiled successfully on

• Ubuntu 16.04/4.13.0-39-generic

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Installation

Auto

• Requires dkms
• Simply run install.sh as root

Manual

As root run the following:

• make clean
• make
• make install
• modprobe 8821au --verbose

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Thanks to

• diederikdehaas for the changes necessary for compiling on kernel versions greater than 4.12. See his rtl8812au repo
• masterzorag's PR commit for pointing me in the right direction
• scinart for the pull request that made it possible to compile on 4.15+

Useful links

• How to build a kernel module
• Generate a deb for the driver

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TODO

• Find a way to download and test arbitrary kernels