Drivers for rtl8811CU and rtl8821CU Wi-Fi chipsets forked from uzh-rpg/rpg_dwa171_wifidongle so its ready for manjaro, forked from whitebatman2/rtl8821CU.
This repository is based on soruce code found on a CD shipped with a rtl8811CU based card. It's updated to build on newer kernel versions. A simple line was added to allow this driver to work with the latest hardware revision of the DWA-171 C1 wifi dongle!
You might need to set correct the platform in the Makefile.
For Intel, change it to:
CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = y
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI3 = n
For ARMv7:
CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = y
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI3 = n
For ARMv8:
CONFIGx_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI3 = y
Use following commands in source directory: run
uname -r
you will see your kernel version then you need to get headers, if its 4.19
sudo pacman -S linux419-headers
then you are ready to:
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8821cu
The USB Wifi Dongle has a small storage partition with the Windows drivers inside that gets mounted before the wifi adapter itself. Follow these steps to ensure the Wi-Fi adapter is mounted with the stick is inserted!
chmod +x automountDWA171-manjaro.sh
sudo ./automountDWA171-manjaro.sh
You're done, you can plug the dongle!