{"id":60958,"date":"2023-11-19T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/60958\/linux-setting-up-the-realtek-rtl88x2bu-wlan-adapter\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:34:22","slug":"linux-setting-up-the-realtek-rtl88x2bu-wlan-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/60958\/linux-setting-up-the-realtek-rtl88x2bu-wlan-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: Setting up the Realtek RTL88x2bu WLAN adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realtek WLAN adapter is not recognised in Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Linux and the dear drivers. I currently had the problem that my USB WLAN adapter was not recognised under Linux Mint. &#8220;lsusb&#8221; at least showed that it was connected.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nBus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>However, the driver is probably missing here. Fortunately, this can be installed in a few simple steps:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo git clone \"https:\/\/github.com\/RinCat\/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver.git\" \/usr\/src\/rtl88x2bu-git\r\nsudo sed -i 's\/PACKAGE_VERSION=\"@PKGVER@\"\/PACKAGE_VERSION=\"git\"\/g' \/usr\/src\/rtl88x2bu-git\/dkms.conf\r\nsudo dkms add -m rtl88x2bu -v git\r\nsudo dkms autoinstall\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After restarting the system, the adapter worked and the WLAN networks were displayed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/wlan_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/wlan_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/wlan_1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realtek WLAN adapter is not recognised in Linux Mint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1682,2795],"class_list":["post-60958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-linux-en","tag-manual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}