On 26/12/2017 16:50, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 12/26/17 13:03, Stephen Morris wrote:
Thanks Ed, I don't remember where I got the driver from other than I found it on
github via google for an early version of the 4.13 kernel, when the driver I was
using prior to this one that had to be modified to cater for function moves between
kernel header files with the 4.11 kernel, failing to compile with the 4.13 kernel.
The driver I was using also came pre-configured for installation with dkms which
was an advantage.
I'll try the driver you linked and see how it goes. As a matter of interest how did
you find this link, my searches haven't provided it?
My google search was simply "8814au driver" and the link I provided was the first one.
The search I was doing was "dwa192 rtl8814au linux driver" and it didn't
provide the link you got.
FWIW, the link I provided does say that it is forked from tpircher/rtl8814AU
(https://github.com/tpircher/rtl8814AU) and it has nice suggestions if you want to
use dkms to keep the driver compiled automatically after kernel updates.
I've compiled the driver without any errors or warnings and installed it
and it is working fine.
The previous driver I was using came with a bash dkms install and remove
script, which I've copied to the directory I unzipped your link to, and
having modified it for this driver, it copies the directory to /usr/src
where it needs to be, and then does a dkms add, build and install, which
places the driver in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra as required. I did
have an issue with modprobe because the previous driver somehow made its
way down to the wireless directory in the module structure, so I had to
manually remove it.
This driver has also rectified the wireless performance issue I had with
the previous driver. The previous driver was connecting with a bitrate
of 452 mb/s whereas this driver is connecting at 1.3 gb/s on the 5GHz
channel as it should be, so it looks like this driver correctly supports
AC whereas, looking at the supported bitrates on the 5 GHz channel, the
previous driver seemed to only be supported 80211n on the 5 GHz channel.
As a result of this driver seeming to support 80211ac, the wireless
signal strength seems to be stronger as well, at least compared to the
previous driver.
regards,
Steve
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