From: Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wifi dongle connected to USB/pci card, seen in hardware, but no wl* device created; udev, driver, &/or config?
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 13:51:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79883ce0-9313-10b4-214a-27be35888bee@sieb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95c76758-485b-aad4-62d2-95ce24f1108c@gmail.com>
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]
That chipset doesn't have a kernel driver.
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.
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2020-12-05 21:25 wifi dongle connected to USB/pci card, seen in hardware, but no wl* device created; udev, driver, &/or config? PGNet Dev
2020-12-05 21:51 ` Samuel Sieb [this message]
2020-12-05 23:47 ` PGNet Dev
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