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differences in the entry: vendor
Edimax-Technology-Co.-Ltd
differences in the entry: model name
Edimax AC600 USB
differences in the entry: possible other names of the device
differences in the entry: VendorID:ProductID code of the device
7392:a812
differences in the entry: year of commercialization
not-specified
differences in the entry: interface
USB
differences in the entry: GNU/Linux distribution used for the test
parabola
differences in the entry: tested with the following kernel libre
5.15.88-gnu-1-lts
differences in the entry: does it work with free software?
yes no
differences in the entry: free driver used
https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au
differences in the entry: Description
Does not work out-of-the-box but works after installing this The driver (GPL-2.0, seems not package contains bytecode without any reference to have binary blobs, at least I can't find ones): available source code.
https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au Example: hal/rtl8812a/hal8812a_fw.c
TLDR: Install procedure:
- Install basic build tools like Linux-Libre Headers, make, etc.
- If on Parabola, install wpa_tools and wwpa_supplicant
- "git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au"
- "cd rtl8812au"
- "make"
- "sudo make install"
- Reboot
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