@andrej Seems to be custom code, or something that has been included in this version. Will take a look, but for now, I just placed something upfront of the device.
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Package Details: rtl8814au-dkms-git 5.8.5.1.r182.g8105736-1
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| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/rtl8814au-dkms-git.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | rtl8814au-dkms-git |
| Description: | RTL8814AU and RTL8813AU chipset driver with firmware v5.8.5.1 |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/morrownr/8814au |
| Licenses: | GPL2 |
| Conflicts: | rtl8814au |
| Submitter: | zebulon |
| Maintainer: | zebulon (Frost) |
| Last Packager: | zebulon |
| Votes: | 25 |
| Popularity: | 0.006637 |
| First Submitted: | 2017-09-18 20:21 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-05-23 13:15 (UTC) |
francoism90 commented on 2018-04-30 14:41 (UTC)
andrej commented on 2018-04-24 20:48 (UTC)
Nope, I’ve set many more flags than that. Here they are. But mostly to no avail, because I couldn’t enable any VHT settings anyway. :-(
No clue about the LED; on my device it blinks slowly and it’s so weak that I can barely see it, even at night. So I didn’t look into disabling it.
francoism90 commented on 2018-04-24 19:56 (UTC) (edited on 2018-04-24 20:01 (UTC) by francoism90)
@andrej Is that the only flag you have set?
Is it possible to control the led? The blinking on my device makes me crazy, lol.
andrej commented on 2018-04-24 01:58 (UTC)
andrej commented on 2018-04-24 01:00 (UTC) (edited on 2018-05-01 07:54 (UTC) by andrej)
OK, I've just got the 8814au device and it appears to work in AP mode, to some extent, but it definitely looks like there's a VHT-related incompatiblity / disagreement between the driver and hostapd. (I had to disable ~all the VHT capabilities.) There are numerous options I can't turn on (when compared to ath10k), so I'll just file bugs for these on GitHub, so that someone knows about them. :-)
The most important kernel module option is: rtw_switch_usb_mode=1. Then (and only then) you get the device to connect at USB 3.0 speeds (as lsusb -t says):
|__ Port 2: Dev 18, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=rtl8814au, 5000M
andrej commented on 2018-04-18 20:43 (UTC)
Hi, will this driver (and/or rtl8812au) work with hostapd? There are lots of confusing (and sometimes contradictory) statements about this on the web, unfortunately. :-(
rtl8814au
: This comment suggests that it should work, but it's in no way clear. Some issues at aircrack-ng seem to even suggest that their rtl8812au driver should also support the 8814 chipset. Is that indeed the case? Does it apply to the 5.2.20 version here on AUR?
rtl8812au
: Even after reading this and this, I still have no clue about AP support. :-/ It may kinda' sorta' work, perhaps with a different hostapd… Is there a howto for this?
(Context: I run a 5GHz 802.11ac AP on ath10k (with hostapd), but need to move it from PCIe to a USB device. Because ath10k_usb devices don't seem to exist, I was hoping that this rtl8814au device or this rtl8812au device could help.)
zebulon commented on 2018-03-18 07:43 (UTC) (edited on 2018-03-18 11:52 (UTC) by zebulon)
There is no official driver 5.1.5 for 8814au. The latest sources that can be found are based on 4.3.21 (which is what is used there). However, 5.1.5 for 8814au is a hack of 5.1.5 that was released for 8812au at some point, with hal files for 8814au copied over from 4.3.21. They did a lot of work, we can assume that it was good work. However the same hack could not be done using 5.2.20 (the latest version for 8812au) due to a significant codebase change. I am happy to try to package 5.1.5 from aircrack if that helps though. But I will not have a 8814au adapter to test it. And would I break 8813au compatibilty? (although this chip is very rare).
francoism90 commented on 2018-03-13 15:46 (UTC) (edited on 2018-03-13 16:06 (UTC) by francoism90)
Does anyone know the differences between this and other drivers?
https://github.com/astsam/rtl8812au https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/tree/v5.1.5
Thanks!
zebulon commented on 2018-02-07 15:32 (UTC)
@escapement: this is good to read. Note that credits go to the patch developers. I am only a packager and tester at the moment!
escapement commented on 2018-02-07 03:48 (UTC)
Working like a champ with 4.15 kernel! I'm running Manjaro... I got lazy... I don't know if they push out the kernels before Arch officially does, but I've have 4.15 for a while... Couldn't use 4.14 because there were problems with my amd graphics... Thank you so much for fixing this!
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zebulon commented on 2019-10-01 06:19 (UTC) (edited on 2025-02-12 07:25 (UTC) by zebulon)
To all having an issue with this driver: please try these alternate packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtw88-dkms-git or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git.