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Bug 541956 - RTL8811/RTL8812 driver missing from both the kernel and linux-firmware
Summary: RTL8811/RTL8812 driver missing from both the kernel and linux-firmware
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
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: 590332 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2015-03-03 01:04 UTC by Horea Christian
Modified: 2016-08-02 20:29 UTC (History)
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Description Horea Christian 2015-03-03 01:04:05 UTC
My latest wifi-dongle (and maybe other models as well): NetGear, Inc. A6100 AC600 DB Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8811AU] requires the RTL8811/8812 driver, as stated here (https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_A6100). This driver is available from here (http://lm-technologies.com/wiki/display/KB/LM808%3A+Linux+driver+installation+and+compilation) and there are a few ebuilds for it here (http://gpo.zugaina.org/net-wireless/rtl8812au). It would be nice if you could add this to portage!

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
No support for Netgear A6100

Expected Results:  
Support for Netgear A6100
Comment 1 Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev 2015-03-06 19:43:13 UTC
Hi,

providing ebuild here will raise chances of this package to be included in tree. Also you may try sunrise overlay
Comment 2 Horea Christian 2015-03-09 12:40:54 UTC
I already linked to a number of ebuilds. HEre is one of them:

```
gpo.zugaina.org
Search Portage & Overlays:

Newest News GLSAs Browse USE Flags Overlays More...
net-wireless/rtl8812au
rtl8812au-9999

View      Download      Browse     License:   
Overlay: pentoo (layman)
rtl8812au-4.2.5_p20140711
~amd64 ~x86
pax_kernel kernel_linux

View      Download      Browse     License: GPL-2   
Overlay: pentoo (layman)
rtl8812au-4.2.5_p20140515
~amd64 ~x86
pax_kernel kernel_linux

View      Download      Browse     License: GPL-2   
Overlay: pentoo (layman)
rtl8812au-4.2.5
~amd64 ~x86
pax_kernel kernel_linux

View      Download      Browse     License: GPL-2   
Overlay: pentoo (layman)
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# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

EAPI=5

inherit git-r3 linux-info

DESCRIPTION=""
HOMEPAGE=""
EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git"

LICENSE=""
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS=""
IUSE=""

DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

src_compile() {
	set_arch_to_kernel
	KSRC="${KV_DIR}" KVER="${KV_FULL}" emake
}

src_install() {
	insinto "/lib/modules/${KV_FULL}/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/"
	doins 8812au.ko
	#emake MODDESTDIR="${ED}/lib/modules/${KV_FULL}/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/" install
}
```

Please add support for this popular piece of hardware!
Comment 3 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-08-02 20:29:08 UTC
*** Bug 590332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***