Install rtl8821cu driver on orange pi one with Armbian 22.11 Jammy XFCE on board

[oleg-orangepione]

Hi!

I installed an Armbian 22.11 Jammy XFCE on my Orange Pi One device and would like using wifi+bluetooth USB stick with rtl8821cu chipset.

I found the driver at https://github.com/morrownr/8821cu-20210118 , so at first-time runing distro I launch:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

then clone repo and

sudo apt install -y build-essential

and for the end launch

sudo ./install-driver.sh

Now i get an error shown below. Does anybody now how it can be resolved?

 

root@orangepione:~/src/8821cu-20210118# sudo ./install-driver.sh
Script:  install-driver.sh v20230101
Kernel:  5.15.80-sunxi
Arch  :  armv7l
gcc   :  gcc (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.3.0
Installing 8821cu.conf to /etc/modprobe.d
The non-dkms installation routines are in use.
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.15.80-sunxi/build M=/root/src/8821cu-20210118  modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.80-sunxi'

  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.

make[1]: *** [Makefile:749: include/config/auto.conf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.80-sunxi'
make: *** [Makefile:2501: modules] Error 2
An error occurred:  2
Please report this error.
Please copy all screen output and paste it into the problem report.
You will need to run the following before reattempting installation.
$ sudo ./remove-driver.sh

 

[oleg-orangepione]

I found solution. I install another driver https://github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU , so it works now.

Edited January 29, 2023 by oleg-orangepione
It's steel not work. It's just launch bluetooth, but not wifi

[oleg-orangepione]

From second driver very similar error:
 

root@orangepione:~/build/rtl8821CU# make
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.15.80-sunxi/build M=/root/build/rtl8821CU  modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.80-sunxi'

  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.

make[1]: *** [Makefile:749: include/config/auto.conf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.80-sunxi'
make: *** [Makefile:2217: modules] Error 2

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by oleg-orangepione
lexical error