Installing USB Wifi w/ RealTek RTL8812AU

Asked Apr 28 '20 at 17:09

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I have a TP-Link Archer T2U Nano Wifi USB Stick and am trying to get it to work on Ubuntu 20.04.

lsusb shows it as:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2357:011e TP-Link 802.11ac WLAN Adapter

Found this thread, but without the stick I don't have internet. The dkms package has quite a few dependencies, and I assume these dependencies will have there own dependencies as well. So I can't just download the package and copy it over to my Ubuntu machine with a USB stick. And then maybe these require updating other packages...

What are my options here? Or do I really have to download and install dmks and all its dependencies by hand?

edited Apr 28 '20 at 17:17

asked Apr 28 '20 at 17:09

user1785730

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Please [edit] your question and add output of lsusb terminal command. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:13
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You can alsway connect to internet using your phone as a USB modem to install dependencies. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:14
Uh.. didn't I show the lsusb output? What more do you want? – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:15
hm.. I guess the phone is an option... – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:15
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No, you didn't. You copied only a part that seemed important to you ;-) It doesn't show the chip model. How did you know it is RTL8812AU? – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:16
@user1785730 Maybe this might help you: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1230020/my-computer-wont-connect-with-anything-at-all-bluetooth-wifi-tethering-is-the/1230682 – ldias Apr 28 '20 at 17:16
Does your PC not have an Ethernet port? – K7AAY Apr 28 '20 at 17:16
@K7AAY -v is not needed. lsusb will show VID and PID. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:17
@Pilot6: Better? Actually I don't. Does the rest I added determine this? – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:19
It really is rtl8821au. But that driver should work. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:20
@Pilot6: Just curious, how can you tell from this? – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:20
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2357:011e is the clue. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:21
Interesting. Where can one lookup the 2357:011e to rtl8821au relationship? – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:22
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In google as an option ;-) – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:22
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And here https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8812au-1/blob/v5.3.4/os_dep/linux/usb_intf.c you can make sure the driver is correct. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:23
Hm.. it seems to be RTL8821. But the RTL8812 driver handles this as well? – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:28
Yes, it does as you can see. If it goes wrong, update your question. I will reopen it and see what can be done. – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:38
I don't agree this is a duplicate. I even linked to that question. Although the comments dealt mainly with the driver issue, the question really was about: how to install the driver without internet? – user1785730 Apr 28 '20 at 17:39
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Do you really expect an answer: "Use your phone"? – Pilot6 Apr 28 '20 at 17:40

Installing USB Wifi w/ RealTek RTL8812AU

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