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#1 2019-10-17 00:24:43
- Martinsos
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[SOLVED] Setting up wifi dongle (alfa awus036ach)
I spent last couple of days setting up alfa aweus036ach wifi dongle to work with my Arch (Gnome, NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant, kernel 5.3.6).
I feel now that I managed to mostly set it up, and I created a blog post here describing how I did it so far: http://martinsosic.com/linux/arch/2019/ … linux.html .
I am guessing there are probably better ways to do some things than what I did, which is why I am posting this here, so if you are interested in giving it a look and letting me know what I could improve / do better, please do so!
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#2 2019-10-17 11:08:47
- Lone_Wolf
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Re: [SOLVED] Setting up wifi dongle (alfa awus036ach)
Never advocate a systemwide install without a PKGBUILD unless you install to /usr/local .
Writing PKGBUILDS is not hard, if that 3rd driver is useful, start a PKGBUILD for it.
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(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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#3 2019-10-17 11:21:58
- Martinsos
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Re: [SOLVED] Setting up wifi dongle (alfa awus036ach)
Never advocate a systemwide install without a PKGBUILD unless you install to /usr/local .
Writing PKGBUILDS is not hard, if that 3rd driver is useful, start a PKGBUILD for it.
Hey thanks for advice -> I merely followed instructions from that github repo, and it had nice amount of stars so I thought it is ok. Source is copied to /usr/src/rtl8812au-5.2.20.
I will obviously have to look into how to write PKGBUILD, but just to give me some better idea of what I want to do: are you suggesting that I write PKGBUILD for just myself, or to actually put it on AUR as a package? And finally why it is so important to have it -> it helps me track what I have installed?
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#4 2019-10-17 12:13:41
- Lone_Wolf
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Re: [SOLVED] Setting up wifi dongle (alfa awus036ach)
are you suggesting that I write PKGBUILD for just myself, or to actually put it on AUR as a package?
Whichever you prefer is fine.
And finally why it is so important to have it -> it helps me track what I have installed?
That's a big part of it, but not all.
pacman is the core of an archlinux installation and (imo) the main reason arch works so well.
A major cause of problems users post is installing things outside of pacman.
Either manually or using some other package manager for system-wide installs ( pip for python, npm for javascript etc)
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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