Feature #17504

rtl8812bu

Added by valhrafn 2020-03-01 04:54:59 . Updated 2020-03-08 12:52:54 .

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Hardware support
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Description

This wifi adapter/chipset works amazing with kali and has my 2 thumbs up, it would be nice to see it supported in tails as well.

Thanks in advance.

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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-02 07:47:58

Hi valhrafn,

> This wifi adapter/chipset works amazing with kali and has my 2 thumbs up, it would be nice to see it supported in tails as well.

Please:

  1. retry with MAC address spoofing disabled; if that fails too:
  2. send a report with WhisperBack, referencing this issue (Feature #17504), so we can check where the problem comes from

I suspect fixing Bug #17323 will fix that. If you’re comfortable with the command line and Linux system administration, you could try installing the missing firmware files manually and reloading the relevant kernel module.

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-02 07:48:06

  • related to Bug #17323: RTL8822be is not working anymore added

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-02 15:26:22

  • Type of work changed from Debian to Research

#4 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2020-03-03 18:25:24

Not sure about the link between this one and Bug #17323; rtl8812bu/rtl8822bu seem to be different devices? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtw88/README mentions RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE instead.

#5 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2020-03-03 18:26:27

I’ll handle the other one first; I’m fine with getting hardware/whisperback report for the rtl8812bu thing, and I can look at what’s happening in Kali to support that if needed.

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-05 07:50:28

  • related to deleted (Bug #17323: RTL8822be is not working anymore)

#7 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2020-03-08 01:16:01

I haven’t found anything obvious in a Kali image (filenames aren’t always obvious)…

It would be great to get some logs from a system featuring this NIC, so that we have a chance of understanding which driver and which firmware are actually used there.

#8 Updated by valhrafn 2020-03-08 12:46:11

CyrilBrulebois wrote:
> I haven’t found anything obvious in a Kali image (filenames aren’t always obvious)…
>
> It would be great to get some logs from a system featuring this NIC, so that we have a chance of understanding which driver and which firmware are actually used there.

I used this driver for it in kali…

git clone https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959.git

and used dkms to build and install it. It works good but I could not for life of me (as a fairly new tails user) figure out how to get it working in tails.

#9 Updated by valhrafn 2020-03-08 12:52:54

Its an amazing NIC, it supports both 2.4 and 5ghz, and also supports monitor mode for packet injection. I made a cantenna out of it and it picks up wifi almost a km away, probably further if I didn’t have buildings in the way.