WIFI driver help please :)

[jeremy31]

For iwconfig, you will likely not see any wlan with the new naming, it might be wlx??????????? any result from

dmesg | grep 8812

[thomas110]

Okay. So. I tracked down the 1st party driver from Realtek and here it is along with all the documentation for Linux: https://www.dropbox.com/s/es6h2pyd0e...linux.zip?dl=0 (UPDATED LINK)

[thomas110]

No result from dmesg | grep 8812Just goes to the next line

[jeremy31]

Does the wifi work in the host? It may have to be disconnected from the host to be used in the guest. The module installed works on normal installs. I am downloading a new ISO to try on vmware to see if my USB wireless card works

[thomas110]

Thank you. Yes It works on the host, but it is connected to the VM. It even shows up in Ubuntus USB list. Another thing I noticed when I "cd" into the driver folder, I try to run the command "sudo make install" to install the driver, but I get this error: install: cannot stat '8821au.ko': No such file or directory

[thomas110]

And that is the driver that came with the usb adapter for Linux. Sudo make load or unload brings up "no rule to make target 'load'. Stop" also. Is it something wrong with the VM or the driver you think?

[jeremy31]

sudo apt-get remove rtl8812au-dkms

That driver was missing the alias for your wifi

git clone https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8821au.git

Ignore if it says something about a non-empty directory, already exists

cd rtl8821au
make
 sudo make install

Then restart the guest

[thomas110]

The very last command "sudo make install" I get "make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop."

But everything ellse works fine

[thomas110]

is this an error with the Makefile?

[jeremy31]

It is not a normal makefile for some reason, lets try a different way

sudo cp rtl8821au.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
sudo depmod -a

Restart guest