make not working

[rancid garnet]

trying to install this for my wifi adapter please help my eth cable is so ugly
i cloned the v5.13.1 branch
i have never used make
https://github.com/fastoe/RTL8812BU

[signal mortar]

it clearly says that directory you specified does not exist

[rancid garnet]

so what am i supposed to do

not as simple as this

[signal mortar]

-C <path> are arguments to make

• github does not give you those arguments

it just asks you to run make

[rancid garnet]

so make -C .?

[signal mortar]

it just asks you to run make

[rancid garnet]

which doesnt work...

[signal mortar]

show error?

[rancid garnet]

this picture

[signal mortar]

AH, im so dumb, sorry, i thought u passed all those arguments

i hate legacy makefiles

ah yes, ethernet speed immediately went to zero

hm, you should have something in this directory (for me its not empty, it has sources and makefile) but for you its empty

@rancid garnet do you have linux-headers installed? also, is it WSL?

[rancid garnet]

no

[signal mortar]

no to which question

[rancid garnet]

i dont have linux-headers

[signal mortar]

and is it WSL?

[rancid garnet]

what is this

[signal mortar]

Windows Subsystem for Linux

[signal mortar]

install them then

(package is listed in installation guide iirc)

[rancid garnet]

oh oh its starting to work

or not

[signal mortar]

show full error log

[rancid garnet]

seems like a recurring issue looking at the issues section

[signal mortar]

actually thats possible, because linux had ton of patches and minor updates (and one major update) since this driver released

[signal mortar]

i dont think they will reply, because this driver is extremely outdated

[rancid garnet]

its joever

this is what happens when i dont do research on a $10 wireless adapter

[wooden pike]

I have nothing to do anyways

@rancid garnet are you still having this issue?

[rancid garnet]

yeah

[wooden pike]

alright

I'll try to hack on the source to get it to compile

[rancid garnet]

customer support told me to escalate this to their tech support team

[wooden pike]

I've done this before but no guarantees

[rancid garnet]

havent done it

[wooden pike]

Your issue lies in Linux API changes

Fixing this requires knowledge of C which I do have

I'll tell you if I get something working

[rancid garnet]

good luck

also thank you kind soul

this is like my first week using linux im quite impressed how this community is

[wooden pike]

@rancid garnet alright I got something to compile

lemme get the diffs out of my test VM and I'll send it over

At first, use this tree

https://github.com/henriqueqc/RTL8812BU/tree/6.5.0

it has some useful fixes for kernel 6.5

On top of the tree apply this patch

This gets the source to a point where it can be compiled

From there it may work, it may not work but I have no way to debug anything from here onwards as that would require having the device

[rancid garnet]

will try tomorrow

[rancid garnet]

works but im not sure what to do afterwards

it takes like forever to connect (about 5 mins) so i think i missed something

this is wlan0 interface

i dont see any new ones

[wooden pike]

it may be a fault in your network config

I can't really help you onwards

I suck at anything network config