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DKMS

The DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is convinient method for installing additional drivers that are outside of kernel tree.

There's awesome documentation about DKMS on ArchWiki, get familiar with it to understand what and how to use it in general.

To use DKMS you need to have linux-headers installed. This is by default if you use images generated by this repository.

Install DKMS (arm64)

The first step is to install and configure DKMS:

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install dkms git-core

Install DKMS (armhf)

You have to perform additional steps to prepare aarch64 compilation environment:

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y dkms git-core
sudo apt-get install -y debootstrap binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
sudo debootstrap --arch=arm64 --variant=minbase --include=gcc bionic /opt/gcc-arm64 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/
echo "export CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/gcc-arm64/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-" | sudo tee -a /etc/dkms/framework.conf
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gcc-arm64/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/:/opt/gcc-arm64/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/:\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" | sudo tee  -a /etc/dkms/framework.conf

Wireguard

Installing Wireguard is very simple with DKMS and makes Wireguard to be auto-updated after kernel change.

Following the documentation from https://www.wireguard.com/install/ Ubuntu, visit the wireguard webpage for Debian documentation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireguard/wireguard
sudo apt-get install python wireguard

RTL 8812AU (WiFi USB adapter)

The Realtek 8812AU is very popular chipset for USB dongles. The 8812AU is being sold by Pine64, Inc. as well.

sudo git clone https://github.com/greearb/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git /usr/src/rtl8812au-4.3.14
sudo dkms build rtl8812au/4.3.14
sudo dkms autoinstall

tn40xx driver (10Gbps PCIe adapter)

sudo git clone https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/tn40xx-driver /usr/src/tn40xx-001
sudo dkms build tn40xx/001
sudo dkms autoinstall

exfat-nofuse

ExFat is by default available in Debian/Ubuntu repositories, but this uses FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). There's a very good linux kernel driver available:

sudo git clone https://github.com/barrybingo/exfat-nofuse /usr/src/exfat-1.2.8
sudo dkms build exfat/1.2.8
sudo dkms autoinstall