Just got "apt install dkms" and "apt install make", that should resolve all dependencies. On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Mike Miller wrote: > I'm installing Ubuntu 18.04. It was very smooth and fast to install it as a > dual boot system with Windows 10 already there. It hardly took any of my > time and it must have only run for 15 minutes. But... > > WiFi isn't working. It's a Realtek RTL8822BE network adapter, so it's > supposed to work with version 4.14 of the kernel and I have 4.15: > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Realtek-RTL8822BE > > But it looks like I need certain programs to install a driver, and those > programs were not included with the base system. For example, this bit of > codee uses dkms... > > git clone -b extended https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git > sudo dkms add ./rtlwifi_new > sudo dkms install rtlwifi-new/0.6 > sudo cp /usr/src/rtlwifi-new-0.6/firmware/rtlwifi/* /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ > > ...and this uses make: > > git clone https://github.com/synthtc/rtlwifi-next > cd rtlwifi-next > sudo make install > sudo modprobe -r rtl8822be > # make sure secure boot is turned off or the next line will fail > sudo modprobe rtl8822be > > But I don't have either dkms or make installed and they have a bunch of > dependencies: > > $ sudo apt show dkms > Package: dkms > Version: 2.3-3ubuntu9.2 > Priority: optional > Section: admin > Origin: Ubuntu > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com> > Original-Maintainer: Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team > <pkg-dkms-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org> > Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug > Installed-Size: 290 kB > Depends: kmod | kldutils, gcc, dpkg-dev, make | build-essential, coreutils > (>= 7.4), patch > [snip] > > So ... what's the trick? I have the bootable USB stick I used to install > Ubuntu and it has plenty of room on it. Is there an easy way to download all > the packages to that USB stick? (Could boot it on another laptop where > networking works.) I could then copy the package files to the laptop, and > there must be another easy command I could use there, right? It seems like > there should be a fairly automatic way of doing it. > > TIA. > > Best, > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >