Edimax EW-7822ULC uses Realtek 8822BU controller and it supports Linux. But the official driver support kernel up to 4.11. So I've ported to Linux-4.12, 4.13 and 4.14 on GitHub
Preparing
Before building, you have to install some packages.
On Debian and Ubuntu, installing packages via apt:
$ sudo apt install dpkg-dev
$ sudo apt install build-essential libc6-dev linux-headers-`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH`
If you prefer to use Git to retrieve source, you have to install Git:
$ sudo apt install git
Build and install
via Git
Simply clone, checkout, build and install.
$ git clone https://github.com/FomalhautWeisszwerg/rtl8822bu.git
$ cd rtl8822bu
$ make
$ sudo make install
Note, the branch "master" means "basically works" and the branch "develop" means "unstable or buggy".
via tarball
If you would rather not clone repository, you can retrieve source using curl or wget.
$ curl -LO https://github.com/FomalhautWeisszwerg/rtl8822bu/archive/release-for-linux-4.14.tar.gz
$ tar -xf release-for-linux-4.14.tar.gz
$ cd rtl8822bu-release-for-linux-4.14/
$ make
$ sudo make install
Settings
This driver works with wpa_supplicant by using the "nl80211" driver. On "Wicd Network Manager", set preferences like following screenshot.
Enjoy!
Top comments (7)
This is awesome! I had to add my adapter's idVendor and idProduct to
os_dep/linux/usb_intf.c, but other than that it works like a charm!On that note, could I ask for you to add this definition to the
CONFIG_RTL8822Bsection?Hi there, any chance you might update this for either current LTS kernel 4.19 or current stable kernel 5.1? Thanks. Awesome work by the way.
Since 2018-05-28, support Linux-4.15 and Linux-4.16.
Thank you so much. This worked like a charm for me.
Update at 2017-12-18, basically works on Linux-4.14.
that works for me for www but at this time no monitor/ap
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In your first set of commands, the last option is in red. Why?