I found driver for my WiFi dongle on github, it works well. But every time I update my system using pacman, the WiFi stops working, and I have to go through the process to install the driver again. Is there anyway to tell pacman not to make any changes to it?
It depends which driver you’re talking about.did you check if someone created a PKGBUILD in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/
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It would help would you actually tell what driver you are referring to 
my guess - the driver needs to be compiled - needs to be built again on each kernel update
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This is the way that I install the driver, I don’t know if that helps:
(I install rtl8812au-dkms from AUR)
...
sudo apt-get install rtl8812au-dkms
git clone “GitHub - RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver: Realtek RTL88x2BU WiFi USB Driver for Linux”
cd RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver
sudo make
sudo make install
...
Really?
You actually used apt-get?
Nah.
I won’t believe that …
you probably used this:
With dkms correctly set up and the kernel headers in place
this driver needs to be re-built after each kernel update.
But with dkms set up, this happens automatically.
No! I copied that right from the instruction that was for Ubuntu! I used yay to install that package on Manjaro!
What about the driver that I have to clone from github and install using make?
I’m not sure that you have to.
You said:
But:
that one does NOT exist in the AUR.
So, you could not have installed that one.
what exists, with a matching name, is:
Since you refer to the rtl88x2bu driver
you would need to install this AUR package:
which is that same driver as on the github page.
You did not provide system/hardware info as requested.
I can thus only go from what comes to light piece by piece.
OK. Thank you. And sorry for not providing everything. I’m pretty new here. I’ll see if it works. If it doesn’t I’ll post a post everything requested.