D-Link AC1900 Dual Band needs to have its driver installed

[DipLeChip]

Hi, I’m brand new to Linux and decided to pick Manjaro, however I have a problem that I believe is universal in all linux distros where my USB wifi adapter does not have its driver installed on the OS.

I have a AC1900 Dual Band Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter DWA-192 wifi adapter and it’s driver isn’t installed on the OS by default

I’m pretty sure I identified the driver chip as “RTL8814AU” after running lsusb

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 248a:8514 Maxxter Wireless Receiver
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 04e8:6863 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy series, misc. (tethering mode)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8813 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8814AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I have USB tethering setup so I can access the internet, if anyone knows how to install the driver please do help.

Thanks in advance!

[realmain]

The driver is in AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8814au-aircrack-dkms-git/

If you don’t know what AUR is, please read these before moving forward:

• Arch User Repository - Manjaro
• Arch User Repository - ArchWiki

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Always read the AUR comments before installing, because they can have important info such as this:

We have to wait until maintainers will update the source code and stick to the 5.10 kernel.

So you’d probably want to stay on that kernel, which is an LTS kernel anyway. This package won’t work with Kernel 5.11 per the comments.

The command to build and install that package from AUR is:

pamac build rtl8814au-aircrack-dkms-git

Pamac is a package manager built by Manjaro devs that can install packages from both official repo and AUR.

[DipLeChip]

@realmain

Ran the command and rebooted, wifi adapter works! Thanks a lot