Please help me setup my Asus USB-AC51 Wifi Driver?

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Hello!

I hope someone can help me. I just bought a raspberry pi 2 for my parents OSMC setup at their house. I had the RPi 1 before and the edimax wifi was too far away from the router. So I bought the ac-51 hoping it would perform a bit better.

I have been reading up on finding drivers for this but still a bit noob with the osmc distro and the systemctl operations etc etc etc…Anywho. I found the lsusb with the driver.

Just hoping someone can show me how to install it. I found a page on ubuntu that had me download the 8812au drivers and placed them in /home/osmc and tried to make. but I am missing headers?

Can someone help? Thanks!!!

root@Kodi-Maris-LR:/home/osmc/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-master# make
make ARCH=armv7l CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.3.0-10-osmc/build M=/home/osmc/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-master modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/4.3.0-10-osmc/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
Makefile:1049: recipe for target ‘modules’ failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b05:17d1 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.01
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0b05 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
idProduct 0x17d1
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 MediaTek
iProduct 2 WiFi

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Anyone? :confused:

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sometimes people sleep :slightly_smiling:

sudo ln -s “change to your path” /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build

that should get you going

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ah sorry m8 :frowning:

Am i doing this right, I feel like Im not lol I am getting same errors with make and this

osmc@Kodi-Maris-LR:~/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-master$ sudo ln -s “/home/osmc/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-master” /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/lib/modules/4.3.0-10-osmc/build’: File exists

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remove " " that was just there for to indicate that you needed to change your path

might need to remove build too if it keeps failing

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Toast,

It looked like it accepted? the command without the build at the end, well it didnt say anything actually so I am unsure.

What is the next step for getting the driver installed, it looks like my instructions are for ubuntu and none of the commands are working. I am just trying to get this USB-AC51 installed but I only see eth0 and lo under ifconfig :frowning: please help. thanks!!!

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Hello,

You shouldn’t need to build this driver. It’s included in OSMC at the moment. You are likely using a new device which hasn’t been referenced in the driver yet. dmesg and lsusb will help us get this added.

Sam

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Ya I read somewhere that it was installed already which makes me even more confused.

Ok here is what I got for dmesg:

and for lsusb:
osmc@Kodi-Maris-LR:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b05:17d1 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
osmc@Kodi-Maris-LR:~$

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I will investigate and let you know

Sam

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Awesome!

Thank you so much for your help it is much appreciated. Again I am noob with this driver ordeal so if you can walk me through that would be awesome :slightly_smiling:
Thanks!

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Any luck with the driver on this one? Not to rush or bug I am just hoping to get this done by today tomorrow since I am leaving to family where this will be going on Tuesday.

Thanks again!

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Hmm i guess theres no solving this one. Should I just get a different usb at this point?