It appears, the system is detecting the USB wifi device but, is not, installing the correct driver for it. If I were more versed in coding I would surely figure out a way to install a driver for it.
The device is actually a Realtek RTL8811au Wireless lan 802.11ac usb 2.0. ( Windows 10 Driver version 1030.38.712.2019)
I have seen someone post that the driver is proprietary and that is why it is not included into any repositories. However, it did work in an OpenSuse Tumbleweed distro that I tried. Just didn’t like the tumbleweed and decided to try Clear Linux.
Not sure if this is a bug or what but, I would be open to looking for a list of wifi / bluetooth devices that do work unit, this get worked out, if ever. So If you could post what is working for you, that would be great! Would like to incorporate both wifi and bluetooth either, together or separately.
Here is a link to a hardware probe which was done with, the hardware probe app:
it appears to install GCC 12 but the os is currently running 14.
cat /proc/version
Linux version 6.10.1-1453.native (mockbuild@84af3ea5e7e048c2a8e6bc25a61eaa42) (gcc (Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture) 14.1.1 20240724 releases/gcc-14.1.0-332-gae2909a057, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42) #1 SMP Wed Jul 24 10:02:10 PDT 2024
Dont really want to down grade to get this done do I. Break dep’s?
Are you failing to build on GCC 14?
Edit: Step 8 is mainly referring to not have version mismatches between what the kernel and the driver are to be compiled in, and lists gcc 12 as an example.
Linux Driver: A driver package called “realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms” is available for Linux systems, which can be installed from Kali’s repository. This driver has been found to be reliable and useful for RTL8811AU-based devices.
sudo ./install-driver.sh
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: install-driver.sh v20240314
: x86_64 (kernel architecture)
: x86_64 (architecture to send to gcc)
: 8/8 (in-use/total processing units)
: 16309668 (total system memory)
: 6.10.1-1453.native (kernel version)
: gcc-14.1.0-332-gae2909a057, (version of gcc used to compile the kernel)
: gcc (Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture) 14.1.1 20240724 releases/gcc-14.1.0-332-gae2909a057
: dkms-3.0.13
: This system doesn’t support Secure Boot
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Checking for previously installed drivers…
Finished checking for and removing previously installed drivers.
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Starting installation.
Installing 8821au.conf to /etc/modprobe.d
The dkms installation routines are in use.
Copying source files to /usr/src/rtl8821au-5.12.5.2
Error! No write access to DKMS tree at /var/lib/dkms
An error occurred. dkms add error: 1
Please report this error.
Please copy all screen output and paste it into the problem report.
Run the following before reattempting installation.
$ sudo ./remove-driver.sh
sudo ./install-driver.sh
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: install-driver.sh v20240314
: x86_64 (kernel architecture)
: x86_64 (architecture to send to gcc)
: 8/8 (in-use/total processing units)
: 16309664 (total system memory)
: 6.10.1-1453.native (kernel version)
: gcc-14.1.0-332-gae2909a057, (version of gcc used to compile the kernel)
: gcc (Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture) 14.1.1 20240724 releases/gcc-14.1.0-332-gae2909a057
: dkms-3.0.13
: This system doesn’t support Secure Boot
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Checking for previously installed drivers…
Finished checking for and removing previously installed drivers.
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Starting installation.
Installing 8821au.conf to /etc/modprobe.d
The dkms installation routines are in use.
Copying source files to /usr/src/rtl8821au-5.12.5.2
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821au/5.12.5.2/source → /usr/src/rtl8821au-5.12.5.2
The driver was added to dkms successfully.
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Sign command: /lib/modules/6.10.1-1453.native/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Certificate or key are missing, generating self signed certificate for MOK…
Building module:
Cleaning build area…
Building module(s)…
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821au/5.12.5.2/build/8821au.ko
Cleaning build area…
Compile time: 237.09 seconds
The driver was built by dkms successfully.
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8821au.ko.zst:
Running module version sanity check.
Original module
No original module exists within this kernel
Installation
Installing to /lib/modules/6.10.1-1453.native/updates/dkms/
depmod…
The driver was installed by dkms successfully.
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Info: Update this driver with the following commands as needed:
$ git pull
$ sudo sh install-driver.sh
Note: Updates to this driver SHOULD be performed before distro
upgrades such as Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04.
Note: Updates to this driver SHOULD be performed before major
upgrades such as kernel 6.5 to 6.6.
Note: Updates can be performed as often as you like. It is
recommended to update at least every 3 months.
Note: Work on this driver, like the Linux kernel, is continuous.
Enjoy!
Do you want to edit the driver options file now? (recommended) [Y/n]
Do you want to edit the driver options file now? (recommended) [Y/n]
I selected (Y) yes just to see what was in the file. To be blunt, not much so, I closed it unedited.
It then, asked me if, I wanted to reboot and I selected yes.
Clear linux rebooted without incident and the wifi is now in network settings and was showing all available networks and I was able to connect to my wifi system here.
, I just picked one that matched