USB WiFi rtl8812au adapter on VIMx.Ubuntu.mainline.5.5.xfce.bionic.test.emmc.kresq

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I installed the VIMx.Ubuntu.mainline.5.5.xfce.bionic.test.emmc.kresq. It is working well. denn i tried use my usb wifi adapter rtl8812au (EDIMAX EW-7811UAC). I installed with dkms the drivers…

dkms status
rtl8812au, 4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg: added

I coundn’t activate the adapter, it ist not working und I got following errors… I think , some file are missing and need more linux kernel files …

Can you help me? What is wrong…

Thank you for your help

here logs after executing dkms autoinstall

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LD [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8812au/4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg/build/8812au.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1 modules
/bin/sh: 1: scripts/mod/modpost: not found
scripts/Makefile.modpost:93: recipe for target ‘__modpost’ failed
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 127
Makefile:1605: recipe for target ‘modules’ failed
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.0-rc2’
Makefile:1457: recipe for target ‘modules’ failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

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you need to add the support for it by modifying the kernel config and rebuild the image

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You need to use Fenix to build the image by yourself,

modify the kernel config to enable support for it, so it gets the required modules and it will work

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@tuncay I think it need more drivers supports in kernel , but mainline kernel requires you to add your own driver many times .

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I tried to compile my own kernel with fenix scripts… but the scripts are not working under windows sub linux 2 and I couldn’t find kernel config files.

Why we don’t have (usb wifi) module support in the mainline kernel? I think many people need this.

May be, I can use armbian to get module support… but it is not easy to install armbian on vim3 too… I should copy some dtb files , and there is no krescue image for armbian.