[Internet] Trouble getting Asus USB-AC56 WiFi adapter up and running.

[tlkpc]

Hello,

Very new to the world of Linux and I have been trying to get my WiFi USB adapter up and running.

When using:

sudo software-properties-qt

and looking under the "Additional Drivers" tab it says that the "Device is not working" with the rtl8812au-dkms driver.

I try to re-apply the driver but get the following error message:

"pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed rtl8812au-dkms[​ package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 (313)"

I have no clue how to proceed. Thank you for reading.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Welcome.

More hardware and software details, please… E.g. which Kubuntu version et al.

Are build-essential and dkms installed? Are the kernel headers present?
You can check this in the Konsole terminal emulator with
apt list --installed | grep -E 'build-essential|^dkms|linux-headers' .

[tlkpc]

Thank you for the reply!

Yes, they are present.

I used the install instructions from askubuntu.com to install it:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential git dkms
git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git
cd rtl8812au
sudo make dkms_install
sudo modprobe 88XXau

Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1254...n-ubuntu-20-04

[Schwarzer Kater]

Again: which Kubuntu version, 20.04 LTS? As this is what the askubuntu page refers to.

Also an output of lsusb -tv could help to double-check the model.
Depending on your Kubuntu version there might be a matching rtl8812au-dkms in the *Ubuntu repositories (e.g. for 24.04 LTS) - uninstall the one from GitHub before trying this one…


PS:
A general tip as you are a new-to-Linux user: for safety and compatibility always try to install things from your distribution's repositories first before downloading something from the internet (this is not Windows…).
Somewhat exaggerated: installing stuff you downloaded directly from some internet page is kind of a "last resort".

[tlkpc]

Sorry for the super late reply. Thank you for the help. I have resided to just run the install-driver.sh for 8812au-20210820-main every time Kubuntu decided to remove it during an update or upgrade.

On another note, yes, new to Linux. I have been using WSL for a little while but now I'm moving to Kubuntu finally.

Sorry for the off topic question; Have you come across any books that deal with the administration of Linux that you personally liked? I was looking at purchasing https://nostarch.com/tlcl2 (Linux Command Line 2nd Edition).

Again: which Kubuntu version, 20.04 LTS?

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble