Monthly Archives: October 2019

Drivers for AC1200MBS on xubuntu 18.04

promised my lovely ‘no wires in the new house’, so trying to get some 5ghz wifi sorted. Doesn’t work out the box. Try this:

sudo apt-get install rtl8812au-dkms

A previous dkms git install that used to work has ceased to (maybe with v5 kernel?). dkms status shows which modules installed this way and for which kernel:

markp@markp-ThinkCentre-M91p:~$ sudo dkms status
nvidia-340, 340.107, 5.0.0-23-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-340, 340.107, 5.0.0-32-generic, x86_64: installed
rtl8812au, 4.3.14, 5.0.0-32-generic, x86_64: installed

This command will remove the above to ensure clean system for next attempt:

sudo dkms remove rtl8812au/4.3.14 --all