Recently I bought a USB Wifi adapter that is Realtek based (Amazon.ca), and thought of sharing the steps of installing the driver on Jetson Nano with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
- Make sure the product ID is b812
lsusb -v -d 0bda:b812
- If you have not installed git and dkms, you need to install them
sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms git
- Clone the driver repository
git clone https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959.git
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follow the steps in rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959/README.md at master · cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959 · GitHub
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You can verify the installation with
dkms status
. It should show you
rtl88x2bu, 5.3.1, 4.9.140-tegra, aarch64: installed