I bought an ALFA AWUS036ACS some time ago. I wanted to set it up on Manjaro KDE to supplant my crappy NIC. How should I go about this. I built both rtl8821au-dkms-git and rtl8812au-dkms-git from the AUR. What should I do to have the ALFA dongle work instead of the NIC I have mounted behind my computer?
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
Kernel: 5.16.14-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
root=UUID=ab50f84b-26b4-4618-bc76-087c0917ff78 ro quiet pci=nomsi
apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B360M-DS3H v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: B360M DS3H v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F6 date: 07/13/2018
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.56 GiB used: 13.82 GiB (88.8%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-8400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEC
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 384 KiB
desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 9 MiB
desc: 1x9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1976 high: 3800 min/max: 800/4000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 3800 2: 2904 3: 800
4: 800 5: 1557 6: 2000 bogomips: 33613
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt
cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts
ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht
hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow
tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DVI-D-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: Philips PHL 223V5
serial: <filter> built: 2017 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2
size: 477x268mm (18.78x10.55") diag: 547mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.44.0
5.16.14-1-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: C-Media Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A) type: USB
driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0d8c:0014
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.14-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8188ee
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8179 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Realtek 8812AU/8821AU 802.11ac WLAN Adapter [USB Wireless
Dual-Band 2.4/5Ghz]
type: USB driver: rtl8821au bus-ID: 1-3:8 chip-ID: 0bda:0811
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20f0u3 state: dormant mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.35 TiB used: 1.12 TiB (83.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS480G2G0A-00JH30 size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0400
scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 447.13 GiB size: 439.11 GiB (98.21%)
used: 337.12 GiB (76.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A
uuid: ab50f84b-26b4-4618-bc76-087c0917ff78
ID-2: /home/<filter>/Storage raw-size: 931.51 GiB
size: 915.89 GiB (98.32%) used: 810.19 GiB (88.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A uuid: 51c61126-9fbc-4a50-b86c-d18b12b67c20
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: C-Media Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A)
type: Audio,HID driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0014 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-3:8 info: Realtek 8812AU/8821AU 802.11ac WLAN Adapter [USB
Wireless Dual-Band 2.4/5Ghz]
type: Network driver: rtl8821au interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0811 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-5:3 info: Logitech M105 Optical Mouse type: Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 046d:c077 class-ID: 0301
Device-4: 1-6:4 info: Microdia Redragon Mitra RGB Keyboard
type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 400mA chip-ID: 0c45:5004 class-ID: 0301
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C pch: 59.0 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: amdgpu
temp: 61.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 742
Info:
Processes: 317 Uptime: 9d 4h 56m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1561
lib: 409 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.14
