drwilco / rtl8822bu

My own copy of RTL8822BU drivers

RTL8822BU

About

This repository contains drivers for the RTL8822BU chipset, updated to be used on a Raspberry Pi, and modified mainly to be less verbose on the kernel messages side of things.

It is based off of the Edimax EW-7822ULC driver, version 1.0.1.6, which in turn seems to be based on Realtek's 88x2BU driver version 5.3.1. The Edimax driver was downloaded from https://www.edimax.com/edimax/mw/cufiles/files/download/Driver_Utility/EW-7822ULC_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.6.zip

It comes with support for the Bluetooth component, but the EW-7822ULC does not seem to support it, so it's disabled by default. You can set CONFIG_BT_COEXIST to y to flip it back on.

If you want to compile this on x86, edit the Makefile and set CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC to y and CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_GENERIC to n

DKMS stuff was gleaned from https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU/

Installation

Using DKMS

DKMS will make sure the driver is recompiled with each new kernel version that gets installed and is the least effort over all.

There is a simple make target to configure DKMS with the driver source, build it, and install it:

sudo make dkms-install

Without DKMS

Simply run the following commands:

make
sudo make install