/!\ Support for Asus USB AC-56 (powerful USB WIFI dongle)

[Pque Christopher]

Hello,

I am suggesting to support the ASUS USB AC-56 (the most powerful USB WiFi dongle availaible), as I have plugged it on my Netbook and it was not detected on Android.

The good part is that Asus is giving the Android drivers on their support website. If there is a way to install the drivers on Android terminal this can be a good way too.

Thank you

[Povilas Staniulis]

ASUS USB-AC56 appears to be based on Realtek RTL8812AU.

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_USB-AC56

Android is Linux based and uses Linux drivers which are
kernel-dependent. And as such, there are no drivers you can just
download and install, like in Windows.
You'll have to build the driver yourself from source, against the
Android x86 kernel.

There are various drivers available for your chipset. The Asus driver is
an old version of rtl8821au driver and is officially only compatible
with up to 3.10 kernel.

There are newer drivers for the same chipset:
https://github.com/paralin/rtl8821au

There are others too (Google: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rtl8821au+linux+driver).

Can't test any, since I don't have the device in question.

[Pque Christopher]

Thank you for your very complete reply. I have a question in consequence. Do you have a tutorial specifically for Android x86 to be able to integrate the drivers from source ? I think I will do this.

Also, how many chances there are for the driver to be integrated in standard in Android x86 knowing that this Realtek RTL8812AU is in some way popular for enthusiast ?

[Povilas Staniulis]

As for the tutorial, there's already one driver integrated: external/modules/rtl8723au
You can try using it as an example.

Whether the RTL8812AU driver will be integrated to Android x86 repos, depends on whether there's enough demand for this driver for the maintainers to integrate it.
You are welcome to submit a patch though, if you can do it yourself.

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