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I've been trying to connect to the internet via my adapter all day, the only way I'm able to post this is via USB tethering.

Earlier, I noticed I wasn't able to connect to the internet on this computer. I thought I'd just redo what I did when I first set up this computer which worked really well: Netgear A7000 on Ubuntu 16.04 not working - though I tried that twice and it didn't work, so I'm stuck on here looking for outdated answers from questions from 2015.

I used lsusb, and this is what shows up: https://pastebin.com/JuyCqaNB

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

ubuntuisscary
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First, we need to remove the dkms installation:

sudo dkms remove rtl8814au/4.3.21 --all

Confirm that it is no longer present:

sudo dkms status

You should see no 8814au entries. If so, proceed.

Next, find where you cloned the driver files:

sudo updatedb
locate rtl8814au

You want the one in your /home/[user] directory; /home/ubuntuisscary for example. Change to that directory using the bash shorthand for '/home/ubuntuisscary', or whatever your user directory is named:

cd ~/rtl8814au

If you find that the file is in Downloads, then:

cd ~/Downloads/rtl8814au

Now we build the file for your current kernel.

make clean
git pull
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8814au

Any improvement?

EDIT: When Update Manager installs a newer kernel version, also known as linux-image, after the requested reboot, recompile:

cd ~/rtl8814au
make clean
git pull
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8814au
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