Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS and realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms
Is there a way to install the realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms driver on focal fossa? I did an apt-get update and it appears not to be in the repositories. I'm new to Linux, especially installing drivers. Any help would be appreciated.
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You need to add the kali repo to Ubuntu to be able to do this (not advised). For using the driver it is better to compile from source on GitHub and use dkms.
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First STEP to do :
- You only need YOUR SMARTPHONES and make sure also they have “Internet Mobile Data”.
- Then you need to opened “Developer Options” on your smartphone to do that first before.
- Open your phone “Settings” and find it “About Phone” and selected “Version Number” and then now repeated click up to (7x) seven times.
- Inside “Developer Options” find it or scrolling to the “Network” and selected “Select USB Configuration” and then select again to the “USB Ethernet (RNDIS)”.
- After this all you need is USB cable connected to your PC or Laptop and it’s done, now you ready online!
Second STEP to do :
- Installing GDebi (I’m using Geary on Pop! OS that are the same software). You can find GDebi in Ubuntu Software Center, just search for it and install it from there.
- Then installing the latest “realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms” deb package from Kali’s repository.
- After this just type in your linux terminal “sudo reboot” to rebooting your PC or Laptop.
- It’s done , just try to check it out !
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