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I just got a Rosewill ac1200pce adapter of the Egg. It was cheap.
Out of the box, it is not supported by Windows 10, which is surprising to me, since the underlying rtl8812ae seems pretty common. The drivers from the Realtek site, last updated in april of 2015, did not work on the first pass in win10. I haven't tried compatability mode yet (will mess with that tomorrow, I guess).
In Lubuntu 15.04, the OS detects it perfectly, though it can not connect to 5 GHz networks, only 2.4 GHz. It works beautifully as an n adapter, but not so much as an ac. It seems my problem is related to this one:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/613136/rtl8812ae-cannot-connect-to-5ghz-networks
So my problems are twofold:
1). Where can I get some drivers for this adapter for Windows 10? Or has anyone else here gotten the Win7/8/8.1 driver to work in Windows 10? Are there any generic Realtek drivers I can use, or is there a driver package from another vendor also selling a NIC using this chip that I can repurpose for my Rosewill unit? All it is is an RTL8812ae minipci-e card plugged into a PCI-e adapter with a Rosewill heatsink on top of it. Any other vendor using the same underlying chip should supply a driver that will work with this card . . .
2). Anyone know how I can resolve the 5 GHz connection issue in Lubuntu 15.04?
Out of the box, it is not supported by Windows 10, which is surprising to me, since the underlying rtl8812ae seems pretty common. The drivers from the Realtek site, last updated in april of 2015, did not work on the first pass in win10. I haven't tried compatability mode yet (will mess with that tomorrow, I guess).
In Lubuntu 15.04, the OS detects it perfectly, though it can not connect to 5 GHz networks, only 2.4 GHz. It works beautifully as an n adapter, but not so much as an ac. It seems my problem is related to this one:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/613136/rtl8812ae-cannot-connect-to-5ghz-networks
So my problems are twofold:
1). Where can I get some drivers for this adapter for Windows 10? Or has anyone else here gotten the Win7/8/8.1 driver to work in Windows 10? Are there any generic Realtek drivers I can use, or is there a driver package from another vendor also selling a NIC using this chip that I can repurpose for my Rosewill unit? All it is is an RTL8812ae minipci-e card plugged into a PCI-e adapter with a Rosewill heatsink on top of it. Any other vendor using the same underlying chip should supply a driver that will work with this card . . .
2). Anyone know how I can resolve the 5 GHz connection issue in Lubuntu 15.04?
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