ASUS Nano AC53 USB Wifi Adapter

MatthewMeredith

Hello folks!

I'm trying to get my new AC53 up and running on Solus as my old Edimax is painfully slow. Is anyone able to help me? I got the drivers from here but when I "make" I get this error:

make ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.0.7-114.current/build M=/home/morgan/rtl8822bu modules make[1]: *** /lib/modules/5.0.7-114.current/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [Makefile:1318: modules] Error 2

Any ideas?

Edit: I should add that I do not have the adapter plugged in at the moment - at what point should I do that? I'm not 100% sure of when I switch to the other adapter and unload the Edimax drivers.

Justin

I'm guessing you don't have the kernel headers installed. Install linux-headers and try again.

MatthewMeredith

Justin linux-headers installed, still getting the same error!

Justin

What does uname -a show?

MatthewMeredith

Justin Linux desktop 5.0.7-114.current #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 14 16:32:16 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

MatthewMeredith

Justin Alternatively, is there a way to get my Edimax adapter working better? It theoretically should be a 150mbps connection which is way more than my internet speed, but I'm only getting about 1.5mbps down from speedtest.net

Edimax is Bus 003 Device 002: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]

Justin

Are transfers over your network going at full speed?

MatthewMeredith

Justin Nope, just tried to copy/paste an album from a network drive that's hardwired to the router and it's going at about 150kb/s lol.

MatthewMeredith

I tried blacklisting the rtl8192cu driver and doing sudo modprobe rtl8xxxu and sudo depmod -a but nothing came up in the wireless menu at all. lsmod | grep rtl showed just the rtl8xxxu module so the blacklist worked fine. Back to the rlt8192cu driver for now until I can get make to work for the ASUS adapter or a better driver for the Edimax one. Still getting around 1.5Mbps down (sometimes up to 4.5 but that doesn't last).

MatthewMeredith

Quick note: my 4 year old Dell Chromebook 13 with a broken wifi antenna is getting 30+Mbps down! So it's definitely not my internet connection.