Universal Blue•11mo ago

Installing drivers with a read-only file system

I'm trying to install a driver for my wifi dongle, but when using the method I saw online I'm getting a read-only file system error. I understand why the system is read-only, but is there a way I could modify this command to get the driver working within the limitation of a read-only file system? The command is question is: sudo make dkms_install and here's where I'm getting the tips on how to install the driver (I'm obviously swapping all instances of apt with rpm-ostree) https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/184118

Archer T2U Plus driver for Linux Ubuntu/Rasbian - Home Network Comm...

Hi, I just got a TpLink Archer T2U Plus, the one with the big antenna. Works well on windows without any installataion, however I couldn't get it working on my Linux Ubuntu 19.10. with Kernel 5.3.0-24-generic system. Is there any official

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dnkmmr•11mo ago

try just use-broadcom-wl

llakala•11mo ago

resulted in a gray screen on boot

EyeCantCU•11mo ago

Please don't enable Broadcom WL as this isn't even a Broadcom device whatsoever. You have a Realtek 8812au. To get it working someone would have to put together a kmod for it

llakala•11mo ago

I found a kmod on GitHub, what's the proper commands to compile it into an rpm file? when I tried I got some vague error messages

dnkmmr•11mo ago

thank ostree for giving us rollbacks

EyeCantCU•11mo ago

Can you link me to the repo? I wasn't able to find anything packaged for Fedora specifically yesterday

llakala•11mo ago

https://github.com/RussianFedora/rtl8812au-kmod

GitHub

GitHub - RussianFedora/rtl8812au-kmod: Realtek 8812AU/8821AU USB Wi...

Realtek 8812AU/8821AU USB WiFi driver kmod/akmod package - GitHub - RussianFedora/rtl8812au-kmod: Realtek 8812AU/8821AU USB WiFi driver kmod/akmod package

llakala•11mo ago

readme was in Russian and a few years old but seems to say fedora

EyeCantCU•11mo ago

Oh wow. From over 6 years ago. Almost guarantee its incompatible with the current kernel

llakala•11mo ago

damn gotcha

llakala•11mo ago

https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au there's this one, but it's not as a kmod

GitHub

GitHub - aircrack-ng/rtl8812au: RTL8812AU/21AU and RTL8814AU driver...

RTL8812AU/21AU and RTL8814AU driver with monitor mode and frame injection - GitHub - aircrack-ng/rtl8812au: RTL8812AU/21AU and RTL8814AU driver with monitor mode and frame injection

llakala•11mo ago

https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/kmod-rtl8812au-ct and this seems newer with a kmod

OpenWrt Wiki

package: kmod-rtl8812au-ct

llakala•11mo ago

but might not be for Fedora

zerochill•8mo ago

Is it ok to continue this conversation? I am having the same issue. I built an RPM and installed it with rpm-ostree successfully, but It didn't autoload for the device. I'm guessing I'm missing a udev rule or installing it to the wrong location. Manually inserting the kernel module (from the rpm installed location) does get the wifi adapter going. I am using an rtl8814au, but there is a similar repo for the rtl8812au that I think could be packaged in the same way. It isn't the cleanest rpm spec file, I've got some hard-coded versions in the %files for example that would need updated if it were to become part of a build process.

Name:          rtl8814au-morrownr-git
Version:       5.8.5.1
Release:       1
Epoch:         1
Summary:       Realtek RTL8814AU Driver
License:       GPLv2
BuildArch:     x86_64
URL:           https://github.com/morrownr/8814au.git
BuildRequires: git kernel-modules-core kernel-devel make
Provides:      kmod(8814au.ko) = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}

%description
Realtek RTL8814AU Driver

%define srcdir   %{name}-%{version}

%prep
rm -rf %{srcdir}
git clone https://github.com/morrownr/8814au.git %{srcdir}

%build
cd %{srcdir}
make clean
make

%install
cd %{srcdir}
mkdir -p "%{buildroot}/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/"
install -D -p -m644 8814au.ko "%{buildroot}/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/"

%files
/lib/modules/6.6.9-200.fc39.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8814au.ko

%changelog
* Sun Jan 14 2024 Sean <seanbreaksthings@tuta.io>
- initial build

Name:          rtl8814au-morrownr-git
Version:       5.8.5.1
Release:       1
Epoch:         1
Summary:       Realtek RTL8814AU Driver
License:       GPLv2
BuildArch:     x86_64
URL:           https://github.com/morrownr/8814au.git
BuildRequires: git kernel-modules-core kernel-devel make
Provides:      kmod(8814au.ko) = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}

%description
Realtek RTL8814AU Driver

%define srcdir   %{name}-%{version}

%prep
rm -rf %{srcdir}
git clone https://github.com/morrownr/8814au.git %{srcdir}

%build
cd %{srcdir}
make clean
make

%install
cd %{srcdir}
mkdir -p "%{buildroot}/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/"
install -D -p -m644 8814au.ko "%{buildroot}/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/"

%files
/lib/modules/6.6.9-200.fc39.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8814au.ko

%changelog
* Sun Jan 14 2024 Sean <seanbreaksthings@tuta.io>
- initial build

Kyle Gospo•8mo ago

If you can PR it to ublue-os/akmods it can easily be included

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