What's the difference between gnab/rtl8812au on GitHub and rtl8812au-dkms in my package manager?
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So I was updating and installing everything on my new dual-boot setup and noticed that Info Center (or something with its icon) was pushing me to install rtl8812au-dkms for my WiFi even though I had the one from gnab/rtl8812au already installed and working. My question is what's the difference between the two and should I install one over the other?
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So I was updating and installing everything on my new dual-boot setup and noticed that Info Center (or something with its icon) was pushing me to install rtl8812au-dkms for my WiFi even though I had the one from gnab/rtl8812au already installed and working. My question is what's the difference between the two and should I install one over the other?
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So I was updating and installing everything on my new dual-boot setup and noticed that Info Center (or something with its icon) was pushing me to install rtl8812au-dkms for my WiFi even though I had the one from gnab/rtl8812au already installed and working. My question is what's the difference between the two and should I install one over the other?
drivers wireless realtek-wireless
asked 1 hour ago
Husky2490
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So I was updating and installing everything on my new dual-boot setup and noticed that Info Center (or something with its icon) was pushing me to install rtl8812au-dkms for my WiFi even though I had the one from gnab/rtl8812au already installed and working. My question is what's the difference between the two and should I install one over the other?
drivers wireless realtek-wireless
drivers wireless realtek-wireless
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Husky2490
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Husky2490
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The biggest difference between a dkms driver, and non-dkms drivers, is that dkms drivers will automatically rebuild themselves whenever you do a Software Update and the Ubuntu kernel gets updated. Non-dkms usually stop working after a kernel upgrade, and will require a manual recompile and re-installation.
To see if you're running a dkms driver version, or not, use this terminal command...
dkms status
To manually determine if you're running a dkms version, look in /usr/src and see if you see a folder of the driver software, and if it contains a dkms.conf file, then it's also a dkms driver.
Another difference could be that the github driver patches an error, or adds more hardware compatibility. Check the version info in the README file on github.
Update #1:
The Synaptic driver version is 4.3.8.12175 from 2014.
The gnab/rtl8812au driver version is based on 4.2.2 from 2013.
A better/newer version is here and it's 5.2.20.
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1 Answer
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The biggest difference between a dkms driver, and non-dkms drivers, is that dkms drivers will automatically rebuild themselves whenever you do a Software Update and the Ubuntu kernel gets updated. Non-dkms usually stop working after a kernel upgrade, and will require a manual recompile and re-installation.
To see if you're running a dkms driver version, or not, use this terminal command...
dkms status
To manually determine if you're running a dkms version, look in /usr/src and see if you see a folder of the driver software, and if it contains a dkms.conf file, then it's also a dkms driver.
Another difference could be that the github driver patches an error, or adds more hardware compatibility. Check the version info in the README file on github.
Update #1:
The Synaptic driver version is 4.3.8.12175 from 2014.
The gnab/rtl8812au driver version is based on 4.2.2 from 2013.
A better/newer version is here and it's 5.2.20.
answered 1 hour ago
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The biggest difference between a dkms driver, and non-dkms drivers, is that dkms drivers will automatically rebuild themselves whenever you do a Software Update and the Ubuntu kernel gets updated. Non-dkms usually stop working after a kernel upgrade, and will require a manual recompile and re-installation.
To see if you're running a dkms driver version, or not, use this terminal command...
dkms status
To manually determine if you're running a dkms version, look in /usr/src and see if you see a folder of the driver software, and if it contains a dkms.conf file, then it's also a dkms driver.
Another difference could be that the github driver patches an error, or adds more hardware compatibility. Check the version info in the README file on github.
Update #1:
The Synaptic driver version is 4.3.8.12175 from 2014.
The gnab/rtl8812au driver version is based on 4.2.2 from 2013.
A better/newer version is here and it's 5.2.20.
answered 1 hour ago
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up vote
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The biggest difference between a dkms driver, and non-dkms drivers, is that dkms drivers will automatically rebuild themselves whenever you do a Software Update and the Ubuntu kernel gets updated. Non-dkms usually stop working after a kernel upgrade, and will require a manual recompile and re-installation.
To see if you're running a dkms driver version, or not, use this terminal command...
dkms status
To manually determine if you're running a dkms version, look in /usr/src and see if you see a folder of the driver software, and if it contains a dkms.conf file, then it's also a dkms driver.
Another difference could be that the github driver patches an error, or adds more hardware compatibility. Check the version info in the README file on github.
Update #1:
The Synaptic driver version is 4.3.8.12175 from 2014.
The gnab/rtl8812au driver version is based on 4.2.2 from 2013.
A better/newer version is here and it's 5.2.20.
answered 1 hour ago
heynnema
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The biggest difference between a dkms driver, and non-dkms drivers, is that dkms drivers will automatically rebuild themselves whenever you do a Software Update and the Ubuntu kernel gets updated. Non-dkms usually stop working after a kernel upgrade, and will require a manual recompile and re-installation.
To see if you're running a dkms driver version, or not, use this terminal command...
dkms status
To manually determine if you're running a dkms version, look in /usr/src and see if you see a folder of the driver software, and if it contains a dkms.conf file, then it's also a dkms driver.
Another difference could be that the github driver patches an error, or adds more hardware compatibility. Check the version info in the README file on github.
Update #1:
The Synaptic driver version is 4.3.8.12175 from 2014.
The gnab/rtl8812au driver version is based on 4.2.2 from 2013.
A better/newer version is here and it's 5.2.20.
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