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Installing drivers for the TP-Link T2U/T3U Plus (AC600 or AC1300) Wireless Adapter #blog

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This is mostly for my own benefit when I invariably format a computer using these adapters and forget how to get wifi working again:

Plug device in and ensure it is detected via lsusb:

For the T3U Plus, the ID is 2357:0138.

Archer T2U Nano (AC600)

Instructions from this StackOverflow answer

git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git
cd rtl8812au
sudo make dkms_install

Reboot.

Archer T3U Plus (AC1300)

Instructions from this GitHub repository, run as root:

git clone "https://github.com/RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver.git" /usr/src/rtl88x2bu-git
sed -i 's/PACKAGE_VERSION="@PKGVER@"/PACKAGE_VERSION="git"/g' /usr/src/rtl88x2bu-git/dkms.conf
dkms add -m rtl88x2bu -v git
dkms autoinstall

Reboot.

Footnotes

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Sushil-Mane commented Jan 10, 2024

my Wifi Adaptor is AC1300

can you please tell me what the error would be??

and also in below picture i'm not able to access any wifi

scmanjarrez commented Jan 18, 2024

Thank you! Working on RPI 4B 1.2, ubuntu server 22.04.

GOVINDARAJLE commented Jan 29, 2024

Hi ! ,

Working on RPI 4B , is it possible to use archer t2u nano and t3u plus at time in kali linux

lukenvn commented Mar 21, 2024

hi guys, Does anyone know how to make it work in openwrt? i try to install T3U plus on an openwrt which installed in RPI 4B but, it dont have the dkms package