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RTL8811CU Driver for Raspbian
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Test report: Works with Debian 11 (raspi.debian.net) on Raspberry Pi 4 #8

Open buhtz opened 2 years ago

buhtz commented 2 years ago

I just want to report a special case where your repo is working. Maybe you can update your README.md with that information's.

Hardware is a Raspberry Pi 4 OS is official Debian 11 (currently stable) from https://raspi.debian.net. This is not Raspian or Raspberry PI OS or another debian-derivat. It is just Debian.

I used the v5.8.1 tagged branch. The master/upstream branch did not work.

Modifications I did to your manual was to remove raspberrypi-kernel-headers from the apt install command and replaced the modprob with dkms command.

Thats it

sudo apt install -y bc git dkms build-essential
git clone -b v5.8.1 https://github.com/fastoe/RTL8811CU_for_Raspbian
cd RTL8811CU_for_Raspbian
make
sudo make install
sudo dkms install ./
sudo reboot

One still existing problem is that the USB-WLAN is not detected as a network device while booting. I have to remove and replace the stick than it appears as /dev/wlan1.

onkelenno commented 2 years ago

One still existing problem is that the USB-WLAN is not detected as a network device while booting. I have to remove and replace the stick than it appears as /dev/wlan1.

Might that be a usb_modeswitch problem? I created a udev-rule for that. for my device: usb_modeswitch -K -v 0bda -p 1a2b

buhtz commented 2 years ago

I posted that to the usb-modeswitch forum. After some diagnosis it seams like that the firmware oft that chip is buggy. No solution yet.

thijstriemstra commented 1 year ago

FYI, for 64-bit raspberry pi, use this instead:

make ARCH="arm64"
sudo dkms install ./ -a arm64