USB WIFI adapters

[Robert McBroom]

I've been searching for a USB WIFI adapter to allow my laptop to access 
the 5GHz band. The market seems to be dominated by Realtek but Fedora 29 
doesn't seem to have drivers for the various chips. Found an adapter 
from BrosTrend that said it supported LINUX without noticing that the 
support was for the slow cycle DEBIAN. With a clue from support found 
the driver on github.

I was successful in getting the driver from

https://github.com/zebulon2/rtl8812au

to install on a Fedora 29 system with the 4.20 version of the kernel. 
Had to get the newer version from

https://github.com/gordboy/rtl8812au

for installation on a second Fedora 29 system running the 5.2 kernel. 
This version also installed on the newer 5.3 kernels.

[Roger Heflin]

It is a mess on the usb adaptors.  From what I saw last time I looked
a 'n' one that is fully supported by default seems to exist.

I have an AC one, but I have to download and compile the driver and
every few kernel versions I have to obtain updated source code.  So
far each set of updated sources code has came from a new source, so
keeping it working is not trivial.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:44 PM Robert McBroom via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
> I've been searching for a USB WIFI adapter to allow my laptop to access
> the 5GHz band. The market seems to be dominated by Realtek but Fedora 29
> doesn't seem to have drivers for the various chips. Found an adapter
> from BrosTrend that said it supported LINUX without noticing that the
> support was for the slow cycle DEBIAN. With a clue from support found
> the driver on github.
>
> I was successful in getting the driver from
>
> https://github.com/zebulon2/rtl8812au
>
> to install on a Fedora 29 system with the 4.20 version of the kernel.
> Had to get the newer version from
>
> https://github.com/gordboy/rtl8812au
>
> for installation on a second Fedora 29 system running the 5.2 kernel.
> This version also installed on the newer 5.3 kernels.
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[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:45:51 -0500
Roger Heflin wrote:

>  It is a mess on the usb adaptors. 
Especially since the manufacturers often switch chipsets
without changing the model number :-(.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 14:42 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Especially since the manufacturers often switch chipsets
>  without changing the model number :-(. 
That used to be a real pain on the few short years that I dabbled with
Windows.  You'd buy some hardware, it'd come with a CD-ROM packed full
of drivers for several different versions of your card, and lots of
unrelated hardware.  And you'd have to find the right driver to
install, because their routine never polled their hardware to find it
for you, and unless it was a card where you could look at the chips,
you had no clue which one to pick.
 
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