raspbian-rtl8812au

• This is an Ansible role for building the rtl8812au Wi-Fi driver for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi devices.
• The chipset is used in Wi-Fi USB adapters such as the D-Link DWA-171 and Edimax EW-7811UTC.
• It has been tested on Raspbian using:
  • Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and
  • Raspberry Pi Zero
  • Raspbian Jessie versions from various dates and kernel versions ranging from 4.4.11 to 4.4.50.
  • Raspbian Stretch versions and kernel versions from 4.9.41 to 4.14.50.
  • Raspbian Buster version using kernel version 4.19.93.

Requirements

• A Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS.
• Network access to the Raspberry Pi with ssh (sshd) enabled.
• A user account with sudo permissions.

Install the Role via Ansible Galaxy

To install the role, run:

$ ansible-galaxy install layereight.raspbian-rtl8812au

To install a specific version in a collection with other roles, create a role file:

$ ansible-galaxy install -r roles.yml

roles.yml

- name: layereight.raspbian-rtl8812au
  src: layereight.raspbian-rtl8812au
  version: "1.4.1"

• For more details, see the Ansible Galaxy documentation and the Ansible Galaxy introduction.

Role Variables

No variables are needed.

Example Playbook

To run a typical playbook, use:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory rtl8812au.yml

inventory

[raspberrypi]
mypi ansible_host=192.168.0.101 ansible_user=pi ansible_ssh_pass=raspberry 

rtl8812au.yml

- hosts: raspberrypi
  
  roles:
    - raspbian-rtl8812au

Learn More

• Raspberry Pi Source Links
• RTL8812AU Repository
• Guide to Compiling rtl8812au for Raspbian