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How do I install the drivers for a WiFi dongle with the RealTek 8812AU chipset on Raspbian?

"In normal circumstances there is NEVER a need to run rpi-update as it always gets you to the leading edge firmware and kernel and because that may be a testing version it could leave your RPi ...
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How do I use Yocto to build an sdcard image for my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B?

For an SD Card image file (similar to the .sdimg ones) to be generated your local.conf file must include the rpi-sdimg filesystem type in the IMAGE_FSTYPE variable. This will typicaly give you a ...
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How do I install the drivers for a WiFi dongle with the RealTek 8812AU chipset on Raspbian?

After hours of reading threads and following guides here and there, the definitive guide that got the driver working was here. Following the steps listed in that post: $ # install necessary software $...
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Issues installing RTL8812BU WIFI driver on Raspberry Pi 4 B

Finally I had a breakthrough! Instead of using modprobe and dkms, it was enough to follow these steps: sudo git clone https://github.com/EntropicEffect/rtl8822bu.git cd rtl8822bu sudo nano Makefile ...
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Enable monitoring mode for RTL8188CUS via USB on Raspbian

Turns out the steps to recompile and load the rtlwifi module are correct. The problem is iwconfig not working to enable/determine monitoring mode in this situation. Instead, I used iw as outlined by ...
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Level of Hackability of raspberry pi

To update Krzysztof's great answer, Broadcom finally publicly released some code, licensed as 3-Clause BSD, to aid the making of an open source GPU driver. The "rpi-open-firmware" effort to replace ...
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Mysterious RPi wifi problem -- No wireless interfaces found

One of the things that I have read a hundred times in dealing with anything attached to the USB on any model of RPi is to make sure that you have a decent Power Supply (2 or more Amps) or use a ...
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RPI2 Kernel module compilation (kernel 3.18.11+ vs 3.18.11-v7+)

What is the difference between kernel "3.18.11" and "3.18.11-v7+"? The -v7+ is tacked on to indicate this isn't from a vanilla source tree, and that it was compiled specifically for the Pi 2. I'm ...
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Problem with QinHeng CH9200 driver - Pi 2 (4.1.7-v7+)

Important: Follow these instructions meticulously Note: The OP is using Wheezy and the latest kernel version from raspberrypi-bootloader then is 4.1.7-v7+, while on jessie that version is 4.1.13-v7+...
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Raspberry Pi Recognizes Logitech C920 Webcam But Can't Do Anything

I spent a number of hours recently with my C920 and a Raspberry Pi 3 recently to make a babyCam that I could stream within my home network. I may be able to shed some light but also provide ...
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Enable i2c on Ubuntu Mate Raspberry Pi 3

Add the following line to /boot/config.txt dtparam=i2c_arm=on Add the following line to /etc/modules i2c-dev Reboot
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What sort of throughput is achievabe over the USB 3.0 port on the Pi-4?

I have a Pi 4 Model B/4GB serving a small office as a router/firewall/gateway with dnsmasq (DHCP+DNS), dnscrypt-proxy, chrony (NTP), and a few other odds and ends. It's fairly busy: up to 20 users at ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 doesn't show a wireless interface - what drivers are required?

On a Raspberry Pi 4 only Raspbian Buster is running out of the box. On a Buster installation you will find the firmware with: rpi ~$ apt list *raspberrypi* Listing... Done libraspberrypi-bin/testing,...
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Using an I2C Battery Fuel Gauge Device Driver

Linux 4.4 has an updated driver for the bq27xxx series of fuel gauge IC's. This driver is available in the rpi-4.4.y development branch at the Raspberry Pi Foundation's github which supports the ...
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Editing Quirks for a USB driver

A real world example that I use cat /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/quirks 0bc2:3312:u,0bc2:ab38:u Note that the format is vendor:device:flag[,...] and that , not \n must be used for multiple ...
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Where to find libraries for using existing popular sensors?

The source of sensor code is generally the same as the source of sensors themselves, i.e., the vendors. Not all of them supply such, and not all of them supply it in a 100 % compatible form. Note ...
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Raspberry Pi-2 with mainline Linux kernel

While the Raspberry Pi 2 support is present in 4.5, you're also looking for a .config that will work. The changes for multi_v7_defconfig weren't ready for 4.5, so they're currently in linux-next. ...
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Connect IRF520 MOSFET Driver to a Raspberry Pi 2

That's not really what I would call a motor driver board. For low current operation I'd be looking at L298N, or L293D, or L9110S based boards. They let you drive a pair of motors forwards and ...
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Missing build file when building for rtl8812au driver

To build this module from source, I did the following on my RPI2. Install build tools: # apt install build-essential bc git wget Get kernel source code # cd /usr/src # git clone --depth 1 https://...
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Installed kernel headers and $(uname -r) differ

You can restore your system to standard with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall raspberrypi-bootloader raspberrypi-kernel sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers ...
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Execute script on boot (with boot folder)

If you have a virgin Raspbian image that was never booted before you will find a script that is executed on first boot up. Look at a fresh flashed CD Card with mounted boot partition for example at /...
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What sort of throughput is achievabe over the USB 3.0 port on the Pi-4?

The other user didn't really answer the question asked, about what usb to ethernet adapters work with the Raspberry Pi 4. Here are some forum links I found that may help. I don't have a RPi 4 myself (...
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How I can identify and set a needed display module which was missing on boot time?

There's three ways modules get loaded With a device tree (for something like a RTC module) When the kernel detects a new USB device being connected. A list of modules to can be specified in: /etc/...
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Where to find libraries for using existing popular sensors?

Quick reply: it is a jungle... But it's not like everybody codes from scratch. Arduino is simple partly because the inventors limited the choice to one language and focused on code reuse. Raspberry ...
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Editing the settings that are available through raspi-config without using raspi-config

The setting that changes inside the config.txt is dtoverlay. Whenever the GL driver is enabled it is set to dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d else commented out. I had difficulties even finding the config.txt ...
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which driver can control 4-5 motors, different types of sensors, speakers?

The most capable motor controller board that gets closest to what you require is called the 4tronix Picon Zero. As you can see from the picture, it allows you to drive 2 DC motors (bottom right) and ...
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Touchscreen LCD USB (HannsG and elo) behaving unexpected on raspi 3

I had the same problem with Jessie & a Pi3. A firmware update of the monitor solved my problem. For the update you need a windows pc. After the update the touch (single click) works fine. At the ...
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omnikey 5421 contactless driver for Raspberry pi

Buy A Compatible Card Reader You're probably going to have to buy a card reader that is compatible with the Raspberry Pi. Elaborating on Dmitry's Comment Basically, drivers need to be compatible ...
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Trouble installing the CH340 driver on Raspbian Wheezy

"Of course, for this to be able to work on the Raspberry Pi, I'd need to install the required driver for it" have you tried it? My Pi has drivers for CH340, as do most Linux distributions, although I ...
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how to set precision of DS18B20 via w1-therm?

The permissions problem is because the redirection (>) is done before sudo takes effect. Try the following invocation. sudo sh -c "echo 12 >/sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0315549b98ff/w1_slave" This ...
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