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richard-tx

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8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

I am attempting to build a driver for the 8812 USB wifi device.

Can anyone help with a quick how-to?

I found this link for the Raspberry Pi, but that does not work with Devuan for obvious reasons.

One of the reasons is /lib/modules/build.   It is a sym linked to /home/paralyzd/arm-sdk....

This is for the Raspberry Pi 2 (32 bit) Jessie release.

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Last edited by richard-tx (2018-04-17 19:40:22)

bbatten

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

There is a Linux kernel driver for the Realtek RTL8812AU USB device which you can pull from Github here and compile.

golinux

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

Surely this is a typo: /home/paralyzd/arm-sdk....

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richard-tx

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

More of the same issue.

root@devuan:~/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux# make
make ARCH=armv7l CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.10.17-v7+/build M=/root/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux  modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/parazyd/arm-sdk/tmp/kernels/raspi2/raspi2-linux'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'modules'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/parazyd/arm-sdk/tmp/kernels/raspi2/raspi2-linux'
Makefile:1584: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

[b]root@devuan:~/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux# ls -l /lib/modules/4.6.3-gb48d47a/build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Oct 12  2016 /lib/modules/4.6.3-gb48d47a/build -> /home/parazyd/arm-sdk/tmp/kernels/raspi3/raspi3-linux[/b]
root@devuan:~/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux#

You can see the problem.  I just don't know how to fix it.  Well I do, but I have no idea where to get the correct file(s).

Last edited by richard-tx (2018-04-18 00:47:52)

richard-tx

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

Surely this is a typo: /home/paralyzd/arm-sdk....

What do I know?  In any case, the sym link points to something that isn't there.  (:>)

Last edited by richard-tx (2018-04-18 00:54:32)

golinux

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

Surely this is a typo: /home/paralyzd/arm-sdk....

What do I know?  In any case, the sym link points to something that isn't there.  (:>)

This is what's in the script.

/home/parazyd/arm-sdk/

You might like to know that parazyd builds all of the arm stuff.

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richard-tx

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

All that is in the dir is directories.  No files.

I guess I am going to have to email parazyd.

golinux

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

All that is in the dir is directories.  No files.

I guess I am going to have to email parazyd.

That or freenode #devuan-arm

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fsmithred

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

Check the Makefile to see if there's a place to set that path so it corresponds to your own setup.

bbatten

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Re: 8812 driver for Devuan Jessie

... the sym link points to something that isn't there.

Your screen output doesn't seem to show a complaint about being unable to resolve a symlink. The line "No rule to make target 'modules'" means that target can't be found in a Makefile. The kernel Makefile has "modules:" as a target.

Have you installed a kernel header package? Alternatively, have you installed a kernel source tree?

Have you done a "make prepare"?