Been having issues trying to get this adapter working in arch. I have installed both rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git r1298.b44d288-1 and linux66-headers 6.6.34-1. The adapter shows up when I click the wifi icon on my XFCE panel, but “Available Networks” is greyed out. I tried connecting manually, but it tells me "profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name).
$ lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore
Kernel modules: ie31200_edac
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Thermal Subsystem (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1e.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO UART #0 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device f998
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V (rev 31)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 8c94
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 8c94
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
02:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 7998
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
Kernel modules: xhci_pci
$ inxi -N
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e
Device-2: Realtek RTL8192EU 802.11b/g/n WLAN Adapter driver: rtl8xxxu
type: USB
Device-3: TP-Link Archer T2U PLUS [RTL8821AU] driver: rtl88XXau type: USB
I never had two wifi adapters at the same time, so I don’t know what would be shown in the menu to choose between the two.
You should probably enable only one at a time.
There is nmtui and nmcli to interact with NetworkManager as well as the graphical panel applet,
maybe the first is easier to work with …
it shows up as a dormant interface wlp0s20f0u3 - I have never seen this (dormant) and can’t advise.
We have seen it in other topics and it generally works with manjaro with the normal driver (this is not it as you know), at worst case with some tinkering.
It generally does not seem like a very logical for me you to ask for arch driver in the manjaro forum. AUR in not officially supported in manjaro, which you do not use anyway.
Are you sure at all the device supports monitoring mode? Looks like misconfiguration to me instead of driver issue, but i am not arch competent.
I edited the tags of the topic.
Monitoring mode may not be a feature in the more standard driver - but aircrack
(a program - look up it’s purpose)
needs this to work.
You presumably chose to want to use this driver for this feature.
But it was likely just a guess.
I personally don’t know anything about the capabilities of this driver or why you would choose it in favor of the rtl8821au-dkms-git
