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stevef:
Jim,

In an earlier thread, a panda dongle was recommended. Is this a panda dongle ? What model did you get ?

It's not really clear (to me) what you are trying to do here - did something go wrong during the installation ?
Can you link to the instructions you are following ?

Steve

Jerry:

--- Quote from: Jim0000 on August 26, 2022, 05:03:40 AM ---
I have a new Realtek 88x2bu WiFi dongle and I'm trying to install it in Linux Mint.

--- End quote ---

Linux Mint?

Jim0000:
I have a new Realtek 88x2bu WiFi dongle and I'm trying to install it in Linux Lite.
It installs the equivalent drivers : rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux drivers according to information received.

Terminal results:

--- Code: ---[sudo] password for jim:
Hit:1 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite fluorite InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Ign:6 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Hit:8 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [99.8 kB]
Fetched 324 kB in 6s (52.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
jim  ~  sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git
cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.9ubuntu3).
git is already the newest version (1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.4).
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0.46.46).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 2 not to upgrade.
fatal: destination path 'rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux' already exists and is not an empty directory.
jim   master  ~  rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux 

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However, when I go to remove prior to re-installing, this is the result:

--- Code: ---Welcome to Linux Lite 6.0 jim

Friday 26 August 2022, 18:48:59
Memory Usage: 980/3671MB (26.70%)
Disk Usage: 12/457GB (3%)
Support - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ (Right click, Open Link)

jim  ~  sudo apt install linux-generic
[sudo] password for jim:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
linux-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0.46.46).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 2 not to upgrade.
jim  ~  sudo rmmod rtl8812au
rmmod: ERROR: Module rtl8812au is not currently loaded
jim  ~  1 

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How to I fix the "not currently loaded" problem?
My computer:

--- Code: --- jim  ~  sudo lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
===========================================================
system Studio One 1909
/0 bus 0VWC5F
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E
/0/4/5 memory 64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 3MiB L2 cache
/0/1e memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/1e/0 memory 2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous 800
/0/1e/1 memory 2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous 800
/0/100 bridge MCP79 Host Bridge
/0/100/0.1 memory RAM memory
/0/100/3 bridge MCP79 LPC Bridge
/0/100/3/0 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/100/3/1 system PnP device PNP0b00
/0/100/3/2 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/100/3/3 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/100/3/4 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/100/3/5 system PnP device PNP0c01
/0/100/3.1 memory RAM memory
/0/100/3.2 bus MCP79 SMBus
/0/100/3.3 memory RAM memory
/0/100/3.4 memory RAM memory
/0/100/3.5 processor MCP79 Co-processor
/0/100/4 bus MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/4/1 usb3 bus OHCI PCI host controller
/0/100/4/1/4 input9 input Dell Dell USB Keyboard
/0/100/4/1/5 input Touchscreen
/0/100/4.1 bus MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
/0/100/4.1/1 usb1 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/4.1/1/2 scsi6 storage USB Reader
/0/100/4.1/1/2/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk STORAGE DEVICE
/0/100/4.1/1/2/0.0.0/0 /dev/sdb disk
/0/100/4.1/1/6 input11 multimedia OEM Camera
/0/100/6 bus MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/6/1 usb4 bus OHCI PCI host controller
/0/100/6/1/2 input5 input Logitech 2.4GHz Cordless Desktop
/0/100/6/1/3 input10 input PixArt HP USB Optical Mouse
/0/100/6.1 bus MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
/0/100/6.1/1 usb2 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/6.1/1/4 generic USB3.0 802.11ac 1200M Adapter
/0/100/8 card0 multimedia MCP79 High Definition Audio
/0/100/8/0 input12 input HDA NVidia Mic
/0/100/8/1 input13 input HDA NVidia Line Out
/0/100/8/2 input14 input HDA NVidia Front Headphone
/0/100/9 bridge MCP79 PCI Bridge
/0/100/b scsi0 storage MCP79 AHCI Controller
/0/100/b/0 /dev/sda disk 500GB ST500DM002-1ER14
/0/100/b/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 1023KiB BIOS Boot partition
/0/100/b/0/2 volume 512MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/b/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 465GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/b/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW GA11N
/0/100/c bridge MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/10 bridge MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/10/0 /dev/fb0 display C79 [GeForce 9200]
/0/100/15 bridge MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/16 bridge MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/17 bridge MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/17/0 enp6s0 network NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet P
/0/100/18 bridge MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
/1 input0 input Power Button
/2 input1 input Power Button
jim  ~ 

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Jim

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