April 2, 20233 yr hello everyone, can anyone tell me how to install the driver for the RTL8811 WiFi USB dongle? Edited April 3, 20233 yr by elsabz
April 3, 20233 yr A bunch of 3rd party drivers come already shipped with Armbian. However the device may lack the firmware blob. Try installing the armbian-firmware-full package via apt. Maybe this is all it needs to work.
April 3, 20233 yr Author Hi Werner, thanks for the reply! Unfortunately even if I installed the armbian-firmware-full package, it doesn't work, it doesn't install the wlan0 interface. If I do the "ip a" command, only the localhost and eth0 interface appear, no wlan. What can I do?
April 3, 20233 yr Author Solution Stop everyone, problem solved!!! I did a fresh install of the armbian image to start fresh. Then I ran "sudo apt-get update", then ran "sudo apt-get install armbian-firmware-full". At the end of this update I noticed that with "lsusb" the Realtek device had a strange "CD rom mode". Reading on the net I installed "sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch" then executed at least twice the command "sudo usb_modeswitch -KW -v 0bda -p 1a2b". Then I found the wlan interface. With "sudo armbian-config" I configured the WiFi and now everything works fine! 💪 The only thing I don't like so much is that the WiFi interface is not called wlan0 but wlxa0d768106782 which is not very simple! Thanks Werner for the tip, I hope it can be useful to someone else 😀
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