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Hello I having having issues seeing my wifi I bought my computer built from newegg and recently switched to Ubuntu it picks up my wired connection fine but doesn't even give my any options for my wifi dongle

would be grateful for some help if possible and thank you I have been trying to get it to work for days

I am not sure what type of device it is is says ac600 on the dongle which i look up and says it could be netgear or edimax

"lshw -C"

*-network               

       description: Ethernet interface

       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

       logical name: enp3s0

       version: 06

       serial: 74:d4:35:b8:50:ac

       size: 1Gbit/s

       capacity: 1Gbit/s

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s

       resources: irq:28 ioport:ce00(size=256) memory:fdfff000-fdffffff memory:fdff8000-fdffbfff





"lsusb"

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:0811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 154b:fa05 PNY Flash Drive

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 093a:2521 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1130:1620 Tenx Technology, Inc. 

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Bus 008 Device 004: ID a012:b012  

Bus 008 Device 003: ID 046d:0829 Logitech, Inc. 

Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub



"ifconfig"

enp3s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 74:d4:35:b8:50:ac  

          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: ::355f:6ae4:a42a:7481/64 Scope:Global

          inet6 addr: fe80::a92f:a3c8:1f6b:6322/64 Scope:Link

          inet6 addr: ::cc28:f3c5:70b1:420f/64 Scope:Global

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:61536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:43687 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:55328319 (55.3 MB)  TX bytes:5679616 (5.6 MB)



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1

          RX packets:5312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:5312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 

          RX bytes:536533 (536.5 KB)  TX bytes:536533 (536.5 KB)

With a temporary working internet connection by ethernet, tethered or whatever means possible, please open a terminal and do:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install git

git clone https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU.git

cd rtl8812AU

make

sudo make install

sudo modprobe 8812au

You have compiled the driver for your current running kernel only. When Update Manager installs a later one, also known as linux-image, re-compile:

cd  rtl8812AU

make clean

make

sudo make install

sudo modprobe 8812au

I used synaptic and searched for rtl8812au-dkms . It worked perfectly once I unplugged and re-plugged the usb adapter. Hope this helps.