Went from 6 Mbps (broken driver) to 433 Mbps on 5GHz. Option 3: Short Instagram / TikTok Caption (For a tech fix video) Caption: Stop throwing away your "broken" Wi-Fi dongle! 📡
Realtek chipsets ending in "AU" (8812AU, 8822AU, 8832AU) are notoriously bad at supporting newer kernels (6.5+). realtek 8832au
Save this for when your USB Wi-Fi dies after a Windows update. 🔧 Went from 6 Mbps (broken driver) to 433 Mbps on 5GHz
I spent 4 hours fighting with a no-name USB Wi-Fi dongle today. Device manager showed Realtek 8832AU , but no drivers worked out of the box on Ubuntu 24.04. Save this for when your USB Wi-Fi dies
Do not use the default drivers. Use the aircrack-ng/rtl8812au repository. It supports the 8832 variant out of the box.
#Networking #LinuxDrivers #Realtek #WiFi6 #TechSupport Title: Successfully got the Realtek 8832AU (AC1300) working on Linux – Here is how.
The rtl88x2au driver from morrownr is the only stable build I found.
