On 2021-11-29 16:42, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/29/21 08:24, James wrote:
Does anyone know if the proprietary driver works on the Raspberry Pi4B
(Arm)?
Don't have a proprietary driver neither.
Dlink seems to have added USB support.
I assumed that is proprietary but I guess that is only x86.
https://support.dlink.com/ProductInfo.aspx?m=DWA-181-US
There is also an open source USB driver on github but I don't think
it is getting fixes like the lfinger github one.
https://github.com/neojou/rtw89-usb
The D-Link driver is for the rtl8822bu, not an rtl8852au. That would
make it for rtw88, not rtw89. BTW, it will not compile under kernel
5.16.0-rc3, but the fixes would be minor.
Is this statement in the readme of neojou not correct?
"This driver is based on Realtek's rtw89 driver
<https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89>
in Linux main trunk. Or can refer to this lwfinger's github [rtw89]
(https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89)"
I checked the dlink link and it is for a wifi5 device.
I don't know how I got there. :-(
There is no linux driver from dlink for the USB wifi6 device. :-(
Oh well, maybe in 10 years. :-)
That driver is the usual collection of junk code published by the
Realtek USB group for years. That code base is used to generate
drivers for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD.
A group is currently modifying the rtl8188eu driver in staging to
convert it into reasonable Linux shape. This one would take the same
effort to make it suitable.
"Chipset:/RTL8188EU/ Standard: IEEE 802.11n"
Would a good 8188eu driver make it easier to support wifi5 and wifi6
devices?
The basic USB driver in the neojou repo should work, but I do not have
an rtl8852au device.
Maybe it'll be in kernel eventually. :-)
Larry
