Fedora 8814au Kernel Module Compilation

For my wireless card, the Alfa AC1900, I had to compile the module to get it to

work on Linux since it wasn't already part of the kernel.

Prerequisites

To do this you will need:

This[^1] is the only one I found that worked for me on the latest stable linux

kernel, which as of today on Fedora is 5.17.6.

First you need to install the kernel development header package.

# Fedora
sudo dnf install kernel-debug-devel

# Ubuntu
sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

[^2]

Next you need to make the module.

git clone https://github.com/morrownr/8814au.git
cd 8814au

Now simply make the module using the make command and use insmod to load

it.

make -j16
sudo sh -c "modprobe cfg80211; insmod /home/codebam/8814au/8814au.ko"

If everything worked successfully, you should now have a loaded 8814au module

that you can use along with your wireless card to connect to WiFi.

[^1]: https://github.com/morrownr/8814au

[^2]: https://www.tecmint.com/install-kernel-headers-in-ubuntu-and-debian