Newbie and drivers (solved)

[digitalemigrant]

Hello everyone, I've been getting to know linux mint, and linux in general, and i'm starting to get the logic behind linux, but i'm still far from being as skilled as i am on windows, so far i understand how to install or search for software or navigating around my system using the terminal, but what haven't figured out so far is isntalling drivers from github, i need the drivers for my dwa 171 usb wifi thingie, found the following driver for it on github, and as you can probaly guess my question is this how the hell do you install this driver?

https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8821au

Thank you for your time

[Pierre]

Building and install driver

for building type
make

for load the driver
sudo insmod rtl8821au.ko

You need to install the needed fw with
sudo make installfw

If you need to crosscompile use
ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE= KSRC=
while calling make i.e.

make ARCH="arm" CROSS_COMPILE=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi- KSRC=/home/linux-master modules

that's the bit about building / compiling the supplied code base.

Now, if you can't understand, any of that, then that's not surprising at all.
- this stuff is not for any N00Bs

but, quite often, you don't need to get this involved, as sometimes you can get a PPA,
or a similar set of files, to load the required driver(s).
- yep - - there is one heck of a lot of Google / Bing / Yahoo / etc - involved here.

and I've been there too, on the sound card, for my latest purchase.


Did You do any research on that WiFi Dongle,, before You Bought it ?
- to check it's Linux compatibility,, if any ?.

[digitalemigrant]

Thanks for your reply, funny thing, five minutes after posting it I figured it out, what happened was that i ran the commands rebooted and nothing seemed to happen, looked for the wireless but I didn't find it, i posted my question and almost as soon as i clicked submit the blue light on the wifi adapter turned on and was working... too late to cancel the post. thanks for your time!