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This is really frustrating as I just bought my asus USB-AC68 and I cannot seem to find the right drivers for this one! Help would be appreciated as I've been looking around for hours now... Lsusb command returns ID 0b05:1817 for my wifi usb (as it is the only Asusteks in the list...)
EDIT: Running ubuntu 16.04
Thanks!...
I found some driver that should work. I forked the driver from https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8814AU.git and added the dkms.conf there. I've sent a pull request to diederikdehaas too.
Run in a terminal
sudo apt install git build-essential dkms
git clone https://github.com/hanipouspilot/rtl8814AU.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8814AU
sudo dkms install rtl8814AU/4.3.21
The driver has your IDs.
If you install the driver this way, it will stay after kernel upgrades.
sud o dkms install rtl8814AU/4.3.21 Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping... Building module: cleaning build area... 'make'...(bad exit status: 2) ERROR (dkms apport): binary package for rtl8814AU: 4.3.21 not found Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.4.0-45-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/rtl8814AU/4.3.21/build/make.log for more information.
Sep 15, 2020 at 17:21
I just got this thing in the mail today. Bought it because someone in the comments said "plugged it in to linux and it worked right out of the box. Definitely not true. soo... tried Pilot6's solution, but it didn't work for me. Spent the last few hours digging. Long story short, found this other project by the same guy on github https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8814AU
Here's what I did. Maybe someone smarter than me can fix my syntax if I'm not being very efficient...
git clone -b driver-4.3.21 https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8814AU.git
cd rtl8814AU
sudo make && sudo make install
output of make install
install -p -m 644 8814au.ko /lib/modules/4.4.0-59-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
/sbin/depmod -a 4.4.0-59-generic
So I ran
sudo modprobe -v 8814au
and got the below
insmod /lib/modules/4.4.0-59-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8814au.ko
DMESG shows this
[4188.649295] rtl8814au 3-2.4.3:1.0 wlx2c4d5404a218: renamed from wlan
at this point I clicked the panel wifi icon and had two adapters. turned off the internal one (laptop) and connected with the new one. The adapter name was blank when typing in the password. Just ran speedtest.net and pulled 188 down and 53 up (Mbps). Was pulling about 45 down and 15 up before the new adapter. Hope this helps!
/media/nobu/UbuntuFiles/Downloads/rtl8814AU/include/osdep_service_linux.h:273:8: error: ‘_timer {aka struct timer_list}’ has no member named ‘data’ ptimer->data = (unsigned long)cntx; ^~ /media/nobu/UbuntuFiles/Downloads/rtl8814AU/include/osdep_service_linux.h:274:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’; did you mean ‘_init_timer’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] init_timer(ptimer); ^~~~~~~~~~ _init_timer
Sep 15, 2020 at 16:49
This worked on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au
On a good eduroam WiFi network, I was getting speeds over 100 Mbps.
But I've upgraded to 20.04, after reinstalling 18.04 after I accidentally deleted and overwrote my home directory, and trying to install it now so I'll update this answer soon.
