I recently purchased D-Link DWA-171 USB WiFi dongle, more info here.
It is a mini size USB WiFi dongle that support dual band and comes with IEEE 802.11ac. I tried it on my Windows maching, it is working great, I can easily get the driver provided on its product page. But it does not work out of the box in my Ubuntu.
I previously found this page here, where it provide the driver for ubuntu, I downloaded, and try to make and install, but the make itself doesn't successfully complete. It shows 2 errors on the summary of the make.
After more searches, I found this discussion here, where people also discussing on how to install the driver for DWA-171, until I found this comment.
Text version for the code:
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git
cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8812au
I followed it and now it successfully installed. I guess the difference between the method above and the method of downloading the driver from its wikidevi page is the 2nd method actually using the latest version of its driver, and the its wikidevi page might still carrying its older version of driver.
Update 161005
The original method above seems not works for 5GHz network. To support 5GHz network, please use the updated command:
sudo apt-get install gitgit clone https://github.com/gnab/rtl8812au
cd rtl8812au
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8812au
