I tried many times to install (via apt get, dkms, git clone) the rtl8812au driver for the alfa AWUS036ACH adapter. Internally (xps 15) I have a Intel Wireless-AC 9560 WLAN WiFi 802.11ac so I need the backport iwlwifi to make it work).
Including : Need rtl8814au driver for kernel 5.3 on Ubuntu 19.10
When I search on ifconfig, iwconfig or airmon-ng is not found.
It does appear on 'lsusb'. Also:
modprobe rtl8812au
got:
modprobe: FATAL: Module rtl8812au not found in directory
/lib/modules/5.3.0-40-generic
I have ubuntu 18.4 on kernel 5.3.0-40-generic Also
dkms status
backport-iwlwifi, 8286, 4.15.0-88-generic, x86_64: installed
backport-iwlwifi, 8286, 5.3.0-40-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 430.64, 4.15.0-88-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 430.64, 5.3.0-40-generic, x86_64: installed
realtek-rtl88xxau, 5.6.4.2~20200201: added
rtl8812au, 5.6.4.2, 5.3.0-40-generic, x86_64: installed
and ifconfig returns only my internal Broadcast module:
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Boucle locale)
RX packets 7299 bytes 3293170 (3.2 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 7299 bytes 3293170 (3.2 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp59s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.43.29 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.43.255
inet6 fe80::b309:b9d5:7c7e:e25c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 4c:1d:96:6b:f6:c0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 85586 bytes 97887163 (97.8 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 35860 bytes 8167108 (8.1 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
uname -r
4.15.0-88-generic
lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net
3b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2723] (rev 1a)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. Device [1a56:1654]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
3c:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:525a] (rev 01)
PS: I also tried the kernel 5.3 but it didn't solve the problem immediatly and on my skylake processor was eating up all the battery. So the solution needs to be be using kernel 4.15+
lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; uname -r
– Jeremy31 Feb 27 '20 at 21:57