Okay. So, I got an Alfa wireless usb adapter for…reasons… and though it got rave reviews, I cannot get the darn thing to install at all. The chipset in it is an rtl8812au. I’ve installed and removed every driver on github, AUR and pamac for it, and nada. The thing installs in Kali as easy as plugging it in and typing a single command. In Manjaro, I’ve typed pages of commands, all seemingly successful, but they don’t appear to do the job. Now, I’ve just installed Manjaro fresh due to an unrelated problem, and I’ve done a single install on my wireless adapter by following a tutorial from a Manjaro forum: Install rtl8812au-dkms-git driver
It went well, but didn’t work. I followed instructions to the letter (I’m a chemist, I can do that). The end of the article had a half dozen commands to run and report back with, and I have those if needed.
So, I then thought maybe I just had to switch the adapters out, and followed this tutorial: How to switch between internal and external wifi adapters
Again, did not work (keep in mind the state of the original driver is likely not normal from following the commands in that tutorial). And yes, I know the unit is good, because I dual boot Kali and it performs as advertised there. So, here is my inxi, and I will eagerly await advice from those more knowledgeable and wise than I. Oh, and I know it says I’m on kernel 5.9.16, but I’ve installed 5.11 a few times and that doesn’t change:
System:
Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=5c08e2d1-a160-41f5-b139-94db75a541d0 ro quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.1 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: OMEN by HP Laptop 15-dc0xxx v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 84DB v: 93.21 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.12
date: 03/23/2020
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.52 GiB used: 2.49 GiB (16.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10)
microcode: DE L2 cache: 9 MiB bogomips: 52815
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb 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 vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: nouveau v: kernel alternate: nvidia_drm,nvidia bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:1c20 class ID: 0300
Device-2: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-6:4 chip ID: 0408:5300 class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3599x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 949x285mm (37.4x11.2")
s-diag: 991mm (39")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 395mm (15.5")
Monitor-2: HDMI-1 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 size: 474x296mm (18.7x11.7")
diag: 559mm (22")
OpenGL: renderer: NV136 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 class ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f1
class ID: 0403
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370 class ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 3c:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-3: Realtek Realtek 8812AU/8821AU 802.11ac WLAN Adapter [USB Wireless
Dual-Band Adapter 2.4/5Ghz]
type: USB driver: usb-network bus ID: 1-2:2 chip ID: 0bda:0811
class ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 1-14:5 chip ID: 8087:0aaa class ID: e001
Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: 5020 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 10
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.15 TiB used: 42.84 GiB (3.6%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 maj-min: 179:0 model: SD08G size: 7.52 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B rotation: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data.
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000H1
size: 238.47 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: CXB73H1Q temp: 35.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 030 scheme: MBR
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 48.83 GiB size: 47.81 GiB (97.92%) used: 13.76 GiB (28.8%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 label: root
uuid: 5c08e2d1-a160-41f5-b139-94db75a541d0
ID-2: /boot raw size: 1.94 GiB size: 929.8 MiB (46.82%)
used: 70.2 MiB (7.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-2c1f875d-9525-42a3-ad0a-bceee4f5ae43 label: N/A
uuid: 0547e253-446b-454d-a046-890434596dca
ID-3: /boot/efi raw size: 2.93 GiB size: 2.92 GiB (99.80%)
used: 588 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: EFI
uuid: D4C9-0B25
ID-4: /home raw size: 168.73 GiB size: 165.08 GiB (97.84%)
used: 29.02 GiB (17.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
label: home uuid: 3be7ebf8-e26f-48c8-8e46-f4f594403f3d
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: N/A
uuid: 37aed73a-289f-4557-8b51-1183c73576a7
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0p1 maj-min: 179:1 size: 7.51 GiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 0403-0201
ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 372.53 GiB fs: btrfs label: ROOT
uuid: b7d47726-02ad-45a5-8e52-494fc94e5492
ID-3: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A
uuid: N/A
ID-4: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 29.8 GiB fs: swap label: N/A
uuid: f7af76d5-2347-4fca-a075-d11554d5dd26
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Realtek Realtek 8812AU/8821AU 802.11ac WLAN Adapter
[USB Wireless Dual-Band Adapter 2.4/5Ghz]
type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 0bda:0811 class ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-3:3 info: Razer USA RZ01-0321 Gaming Mouse [DeathAdder V2]
type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1532:0084 class ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-6:4 info: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0408:5300
class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-14:5 info: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP)
type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 8087:0aaa class ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003 class ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 286 Uptime: 45m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1522 lib: 435 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0
running in: terminator inxi: 3.3.01
Also,
dkms status
shows this:
rtl8812au, 5.9.3.2.r9.gd1bf6df, 5.11.1-1-MANJARO, x86_64: installed
rtl8812au, 5.9.3.2.r9.gd1bf6df, 5.9.16-1-MANJARO, x86_64: installed
Thanks in advance!