Driver for realtek rtl8811cu wireless adapter

[jinglei207]

I tried to find the driver for rtl8811cu but with no success, only found a driver for linux https://github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU.
Is there any one who can help me?

[slh]

OpenWrt on Orange pi R1

The situation around Realtek wireless drivers, particularly USB wireless drivers, is an utter mess. Realtek pushes out new, slightly changed, wireless chipsets 2-3 times a year, each with their own vendor driver[0], which is subsequently forgotten about immediately, in favour of the next one - but doesn't follow up with upstreaming them at all[1]. For a while these drivers were accepted into staging, but after six drivers ended up there[2], rotting away without ever getting closer to being mainl…

[jinglei207]

Which dual band adapters are best supported by openwrt?

[slh]

In terms of AP capable USB WLAN cards, the situation has never been good[0] - and hasn't gotten much better recently either.

PCI/ PCIe/ mini-PCIe and m.2 offer significantly better options (even SDIO based cards are typically better than USB ones).

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[0] AP functionality for USB devices isn't part of the todo list for the vendor, which means the firmware often lacks AP specific functionality or implements it in a buggy way; the situation is similar for the (linux-) driver developers. This, combined with USB specific issues like overheating and antennas both too small and too close to each other for MIMO to work, renders USB a bad options for this.

[jinglei207]

any good pci-e cards?

[slh]

QCA9880, QCA9982, QCA9984, maybe MT7612 or MT7615.