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This package now forces to use the branch v5.6.4.2 (the one that works better for me), which is the default one in the remote repository although they still mention branch v5.3.4 as the stable one. If you have any issues, please leave a comment, and also tried to change the branch in the source array. For example, change it to:

source=('rtl88xxau::git+https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git#branch=v5.3.4'

Read the README.me to learn how to set your interface in monitor mode (and other things).

Important: Use ip and iw instead of ifconfig and iwconfig

@noraj: regarding versioning, I think this is a good point. The wiki privides some guidance there: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines#The_pkgver()_function. Even better than hardcoding the version number is to use the last fallback routine pkgver() { cd "$pkgname" ( set -o pipefail git describe --long 2>/dev/null | sed 's/([^-]*-g)/r\1/;s/-/./g' || printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" ) }

On the other hand, optdepends is not required: there is already a dkms dependency, which has the linux-headers optdepends. It is unadvised and unnecessary to repeat them, since they are inherited from dkms.

In pkgver() what about printf '%s.r%s.g%s' '5.2.20.2' "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" instead of printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" ? So the DKMS module will be versioned like this rtl88xxau/5.2.20.2.r600.983ec8c instead of rtl88xxau/r600.983ec8c.

Also what about putting the linux headers as optdeps ?

optdepends=('linux-headers: build modules against the Arch kernel'
            'linux-lts-headers: build modules against the LTS kernel'
            'linux-zen-headers: build modules against the ZEN kernel'
            'linux-hardened-headers: build modules against the HARDENED kernel')

Because those headers are required, but since different arch based distro use other linux packages or use different version we should just put them as opt so people don't forget that linux header are required.

I don't know the guidelines but maybe we shouldn't specify the branch at all so that it propagates to the package if/when the default branch becomes v5.3.4 or some other branch.

@iyanmv Tags are looking good

@jpegxguy I changed the tags. Do you think they are ok now?

@polyzen: Oh yes, thanks! I fixed that.

This package is not actually using the v5.2.20 branch as only the URL was changed. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines#VCS_sources

I think the rtl type entries in the tags should be modified to have au appended. people who won't search using 8812au, will search using rtl8812au. Also 8812 is missing the au (second entry)

Neither changing CONFIG_DISABLE_REGD_C nor trying the other package rtl8812au-dkms-git solved the issue. Even before the aircrack days, I used the 4.x version driver with package name rtl8821au-dkms-git. Only that one worked.

@jpegxguy @zebulon: there is a relevant line in the Makefile file that you may try to change. Try to change CONFIG_DISABLE_REGD_C=y -> CONFIG_DISABLE_REGD_C=n

@zebulon: regarding the USB2 thing, there is also the line CONFIG_USB2_EXTERNAL_POWER = n a little bit below in the same file.

@jpegxguy: Have you the same issue with the rtl8812au-dkms-git package (gordboy's repo)? I only have this problem with aircrack's, although they both have 5.2.20.2 codebase. And what is your adapter? I will look at issues on Github and see if something similar has been already reported.