It Worked For Me (Sort Of) - Raspberry PI and D-Link DWA-171A1

I recently purchased a D-Link DWA-171A1 Wireless AC Dual Band USB Adapter to use with a Raspberry PI 2 B after seeing a posting that stated that it worked out of the box.  Well…

It didn’t work out of the box but I was able to get it to work by compiling the driver.  I used this code from GitHub on the Raspbian Jessie image dated 11/21/2015

1. Loaded the Raspbian Jessie image from here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Linux raspberrypi (4.1.13-v7+)  to my SD Card.
2. Added the following packages using apt-get: apt-get install dkms build-essential bc
3. Downloaded and unzip the driver from abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux GitHub repository:  https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux/archive/master.zip
4. Download the appropriate kernel headers for your version of Raspbian.  I found the ones I needed here: https://www.niksula.hut.fi/~mhiienka/Rpi/linux-headers-rpi/.
5. Install the headers using sudo dpkg –i <package name>.deb.
6. cd to the directory you unziped the driver into.
7. Using nano or some other editor update the Makefile:

CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = y

8. The using the following commands build and install the driver.

# sudo make clean
# sudo make
# sudo make install
# sudo modprobe -a 8812au

You should now see the DWA-171 as a wireless interface and should be able to configure it.

I tried the same procedure using a Raspberry Pi B running Arch Linux with a 3.12.26-1-ARCH kernel and wasn’t able to get the driver to compile.

Thanks to all those who made resources available to help me along this journey.