rtl8821CU

Drivers for rtl8811CU and rtl8821CU Wi-Fi chipsets. This repository is based on soruce code found on a CD shipped with a rtl8811CU based card. It's updated to build on newer kernel versions.

Deprecation notice

This repository is archived and will probably never be supported in the future. Please consider switching to one of the forked repositories.

Build and install with DKMS

DKMS is a system which will automatically recompile and install a kernel module when a new kernel gets installed or updated. To make use of DKMS, install the dkms package, which on Debian (based) systems is done like this:

apt-get install dkms

To make use of the DKMS feature with this project, do the following:

DRV_NAME=rtl8821CU
DRV_VERSION=5.2.5.3
sudo mkdir /usr/src/${DRV_NAME}-${DRV_VERSION}
git archive master | sudo tar -x -C /usr/src/${DRV_NAME}-${DRV_VERSION}
sudo dkms add -m ${DRV_NAME} -v ${DRV_VERSION}
sudo dkms build -m ${DRV_NAME} -v ${DRV_VERSION}
sudo dkms install -m ${DRV_NAME} -v ${DRV_VERSION}

If you later on want to remove it again, do the following:

DRV_NAME=rtl8821CU
DRV_VERSION=5.2.5.3
sudo dkms remove ${DRV_NAME}/${DRV_VERSION} --all

Build and install without DKMS

Use following commands in source directory:

make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8821cu

Raspberry Pi

To build this driver on Raspberry Pi you need to set correct platform in Makefile. Change

CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = y
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI3 = n

to

CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = y
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI3 = n

For the Raspberry Pi 3 you need to change it to

CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI3 = y