The holidays are over, and I just got a box of goodies. A whole slew of new WiFi dongles featuring the MediaTek MT7612U. I spent the night with my sons shucking the boxes, and assembling them to end up with the box above. I am still waiting on a few critical parts, but I will …
As my post said earlier, I was seeing NO 5GHz signals on the RTL8812 dongles. None. Zip. Nada. I am messing with the MediaTek MT7612U dongles now, and I was having the same issue. Not a single AC or 5GHz signal. After messing with trying to get the drivers to work properly, I took a …
So after weeks of working the issues, a half dozen different clean installs of Linux, and hours of troubleshooting, I have come to the conclusion that while the RTL8812AU and RTL8812BU might “work” with Kismet, they in fact don’t. This is after buying 114 or so, from multiple vendors. Here are the problems that I …