Rtl8811 Driver, please help

gutuning · January 21, 2019 at 6:01 PM

Hello i bought a ac600 rtl8811 usb wifi dongle but it doesnt get recognized by my s805 box running libreelec. Can someone help me find a way to get it to work? Thanks

**chewitt** · January 21, 2019 at 6:48 PM Official Post

Your options are:

a) Wait patiently for 12 months (maybe) until there's viable mainline kernel support for S805 hardware

b) Swap the S805 device for a Raspberry Pi or Intel NUC device (anything running a modern kernel)

c) Swap the unsupported USB wireless dongle for something that is supported

gutuning · January 21, 2019 at 6:59 PM

Do u think that if i switch back to android it will work? Thanks

**chewitt** · January 21, 2019 at 7:00 PM Official Post

Probably not. Android will support whatever WIFI card is in the box and not much else.

gutuning · January 21, 2019 at 7:21 PM

Ok tahnks. Probably asked a milion times but can you reccomend a working chip?

**chewitt** · January 21, 2019 at 7:33 PM Official Post

I normally recommend people search wikidevi for devices using the ath9k_htc driver as it's in-kernel and fully open source and well written, but S805 requires the 3.10 kernel which has prehistoric support for everything so I no guarantees that it would be supported either. Hence the modern kernel comment I made in my first reply. Plan B.. get an old Apple a1rport from eBay and use it as a wireless bridge via Ethernet and eliminate all driver hassles. The last one I acquired was $20.

gutuning · January 29, 2019 at 5:34 PM

Quote from chewitt

I normally recommend people search wikidevi for devices using the ath9k_htc driver as it's in-kernel and fully open source and well written, but S805 requires the 3.10 kernel which has prehistoric support for everything so I no guarantees that it would be supported either. Hence the modern kernel comment I made in my first reply. Plan B.. get an old Apple a1rport from eBay and use it as a wireless bridge via Ethernet and eliminate all driver hassles. The last one I acquired was $20.

Im thinking installing librelec on a windows pc. the ac600 rtl8811 will work without needing to install drivers? Thanks

**chewitt** · January 30, 2019 at 7:09 AM Official Post

No idea, Sorry.

alexx_great · January 30, 2019 at 3:48 PM

It won't work. I tried both rtl8812 and rtl8811. Non of them work with Libreelec x86_64.

Aidan Macgregor · October 24, 2020 at 12:52 PM

there is now LE For S8xx devices running kernel 5.9, managed to boot on my s812 device, slight graphical issue on boot logo but booted sucsesfully LIBREELEC — Yandex.Disk