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I recently formatted my computer and bought a wireless adapter for it Archer T4U US 3.0 from tp link.

I have been trying to get it to work but at first it did not recognize the wifi adapter, so I tried this solution: https://askubuntu.com/a/802209/592069

After trying the solution I now get the symbol of wifi in the top but it does not recognize any networks from my local I have both signals 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz, but none of them work.

The main reason why I bought this new adapter is to be able to connect to 5.8ghz so that is the main frequency I am trying to connect to.

An active user from the answer that i tried before recommended me to post the results from a script that is posted in My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?

The result is https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/3pjxnpMzwY/

Also attaching a couple of images of how everything looks in my OS: enter image description here

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Enmanuel Durán
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First, we search for your device ID, in this case, the usb.id 2357:0115. We find the usually very reliable wikidevi: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_Archer_T4U_v3 It suggests that the correct driver is not rtl8812au but 88x2bu. I suspect that rtl8812au was correct for an earlier version of the T4U; v2 or v1, perhaps. I am surprised that the rtl8812au driver works even partially.

Let's install the probable better driver:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install dkms git
git clone https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959
sudo dkms add ./rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959
sudo dkms install -m rtl88x2bu -v 5.3.1
sudo modprobe -r rtl8812au
sudo modprobe 88x2bu

If the wireless works as expected, let's blacklist the incorrect driver:

sudo -i
echo "blacklist rtl8812au"  >>  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit
chili555
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  • is it possible to use make clean and then make instead of dkms? I have no internet connection to install with sudo apt sadly. I also tried downloading the .deb package for bionic but it is not found when executing it in the terminal. – Enmanuel Durán Oct 19 '19 at 21:08
  • I have used sudo make and sudo make install instead of using dkms and it just worked like a charm, thanks a lot, you have no idea how helpful this was. – Enmanuel Durán Oct 19 '19 at 21:31
  • Now that you have internet connectivity, I recommend that you undertake the dkms process so that you needn't recompile with every kernel update. Glad it's working! – chili555 Oct 19 '19 at 21:33
  • Done, your steps with dkms worked properly. – Enmanuel Durán Oct 19 '19 at 21:36
  • @chili555 after one hour of trying different solutions finally one that works. Thanks you kind sir. – Ionut Hulub Jun 17 '20 at 08:20