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[99.7.172.215]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w2sm6172801pjb.22.2020.12.05.15.47.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:47:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: wifi dongle connected to USB/pci card, seen in hardware, but no wl* device created; udev, driver, &/or config? From: PGNet Dev To: samuel@sieb.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <95c76758-485b-aad4-62d2-95ce24f1108c@gmail.com> <79883ce0-9313-10b4-214a-27be35888bee@sieb.net> Message-ID: <27d25649-2f5a-5818-6b2c-ef134cb3394b@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:47:53 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <79883ce0-9313-10b4-214a-27be35888bee@sieb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On 12/5/20 1:51 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/5/20 1:25 PM, PGNet Dev wrote: >> lsusb | grep 008 >> Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] > > There are a couple of available options: > https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu > https://github.com/RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver > >> existing default udev rules aren't creating a wlan device; I'd expected that they would ... > > The device can only be created if there's a driver to create it. ::facepalm:: well, it certainly help if I'd not just googled for ac1200 but ALSO paid attention to the fact I'd installed 88x2*a*u! > https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au with CORRECT driver > https://github.com/RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver dkms-installed, on boot dmesg | grep wl [ 22.083177] RTW: rtw_ndev_init(wlan0) if1 mac_addr=44:01:bb:33:c4:1c [ 22.318059] rtl88x2bu 8-4:1.0 wlp2s0u4: renamed from wlan0 iw dev phy#0 Interface wlp2s0u4 ifindex 3 wdev 0x1 addr 44:01:bb:33:c4:1c type managed txpower 42949572.96 dBm hwinfo --wlan | egrep "Device:|Modules:|File:" Device: usb 0xb812 "802.11ac NIC" Driver Modules: "88x2bu" Device File: wlp2s0u4 pebkac. again. thx o/