Background information: yesterday i finally decided to give Manjaro a try after some time using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I went to the website and downloaded the version with the I3wm ( Manjaro - I3 , i think i downloaded the minimal install). Installed perfectly fine, until i tried putting my Archer T4U Wi-Fi usb adapter in, which may i add, worked as normal in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after doing a dkms install on the drivers.
After the fresh install finished i went to get the drivers for my wireless adaptor. I got them here: GitHub - cilynx/rtl88x2bu: rtl88x2bu driver updated for current kernels. . They seemed to have installed as normal, i haven’t recognized any error messages during the installation and the device is recognized by the system, however when i try connecting to my Wi-Fi i get an error. The system keeps asking for authentication, picture below. I give the password for the network, but it doesn’t matter, the same “Authentication required by Wi-FI network” window keeps popping up and the internet doesn’t finish connecting.
[I had an image of the window here, however it seems i cannot post images in the forum, i hope my description was sufficient.]
I tried changing usb ports, reinstalling the system again, but nothing worked. My best guess is that it has something to do with the Kernel, i am still a new Linux user, i cannot give reasoning to my guess, but that is what i would bet after the online research i did.
Since this is a fresh install, i will give every single command i have run on this machine since i have installed Manjaro.
Before installing the drivers
sudo pacman -Syu
reboot
sudo pacman -S dkms base-devel linux510-headers firefox
reboot
I then cloned the git page of the drivers and followed the instructions for the dkms install
cd rtl88x2bu
VER=$(sed -n 's/\PACKAGE_VERSION="\(.*\)"/\1/p' dkms.conf)
sudo rsync -rvhP ./ /usr/src/rtl88x2bu-${VER}
sudo dkms add -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo dkms build -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo dkms install -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo modprobe 88x2bu
More information:
dkms status
rtl88x2bu, 5.6.1, 5.10.59-1-MANJARO, x86_64: installed
uname -r
5.10.59-1-MANJARO
pacman -Q | grep headers
linux-api-headers 5.12.3-1
linux510-headers 5.10.59-1
I hope this was enough information, please help me. I really wanted to use Manjaro, but not getting my Wi-Fi usb adaptor to work with it would instantly make the distro unusable for me.