01-05-2018, 12:02 AM
(12-22-2017, 07:27 AM)Luke Wrote:(12-21-2017, 06:00 PM)Arsiesys Wrote: Hello,
I am seriously thinking to buy a rock64 with the official wifi dongle antenna :
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-u...au-adapter
Can I build a stable WIFI AP in 5Ghz with this one and the rock64 ?
I am mainly worried about hostapd AP chipset support and kernel driver for the chipset RTL8812AU used by the adapter.
Thanks in advance !
Regards,
Arsiesys
Funny you should ask, as I spent quite some time trying to get an RTL8812AU dongle to work in AP mode just recently. It ought to work (does on Android without issues) but even after getting all the required patches and setting for hostapd I still didn't get it to work (even in 2.4Ghz). I tried it on the Rock64, as well as other boards and my stationary computer running linux with the same result.
If you decide to proceed and try it out please do let me know. Also, I have now all the resources to get the driver to work, build custom rtl_hostapd and apply patches - so that would save you some time looking for all this info.
How did you finally manage to get the driver installed? I'm interested in doing the same thing, and for a wireless dongle that is advertised to be compatible with the Rock64, I can find very little info on loading the drivers. dmesg shows a Realtek wireless device, but I am unable to successfully load the drivers to use it. I expected "modprobe rtlwifi" or something similar to work, but the driver is not listed under /lib/modules/kernel; at least no where I can find.
