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
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try
just use-broadcom-wl
resulted in a gray screen on boot
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
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
thank ostree for giving us rollbacks
Can you link me to the repo? I wasn't able to find anything packaged for Fedora specifically yesterday
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
readme was in Russian and a few years old but seems to say fedora
Oh wow. From over 6 years ago. Almost guarantee its incompatible with the current kernel
damn gotcha
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
https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/kmod-rtl8812au-ct and this seems newer with a kmod
but might not be for Fedora
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.
If you can PR it to ublue-os/akmods
it can easily be included