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

tp-link-ac600-ac1300-drivers-linux.md

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

• TP-Link T2U Nano (AC600)¹
• TP-Link T3U Plus (AC1300)¹

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.

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Footnotes

¹ This is a referral code. Clicking on it and buying the product helps me maintain this site, but it's perfectly okay if you don't, either :)

You can check if your device supports AP mode by running "iw list " and looking in the 'Supported interface mode*s' section for "*AP" .

@odhiambo I get the following modes for my TP-Link T3U Plus (AC1300):

	 * IBSS
	 * managed
	 * AP
	 * monitor
	 * P2P-client
	 * P2P-GO

@TomK32 the "AP" bit means it supports AP mode. Which T3U do you have - the nano or the bigger one?
Perhaps you can configure an AP using the 5GHz mode in hostapd.conf and let us know if it works? I'd like to get one if it does.

@odhiambo the big one. It took a while but I have it running as AP on 5Ghz on my Raspberry Pi 3B+

@TomK32 thanks for that update. I am going for it! I needed one like that for the very same purpose. And since it's dual-band, please try and run an AP on each band.

Thx TILL 108 IE INFINITY

is it support moniter mode
and packet injection

did you know answer of this question?If you know,can you share link that how i can install driver

The instructions are literally in this blog post/gist

The installation for AC1300 worked flawlessly on an old iMac 2006 with Intel and Lubuntu 22.04 installed. Thanks!!

thank you this installation works on ubuntu 20.04.1 kernal 5.15 !

No worries, happy this helped 😊

Thanks bro!

Thanks for sharing this clear guide.

To anyone reading, I got this working with an AC1300 T3U Plus (EU model) by following the steps exactly. Before installation, the T3U Plus showed up with lsusb as ID 2357:0138 TP-Link 802.11ac NIC but it was not recognised as a network interface. After installation, all functions of the device worked as expected.

Running iw list told me that the enabled capabilities of the T3U Plus were the following:

IBSS
managed
AP
AP/VLAN
monitor
P2P-client
P2P-GO
P2P-device

OS: Kali Linux 2023.2 (Linux 6.1.0-kali9-amd64) installed on bare metal

thanks dude it works on kali linux

Is there any way to use these adapters on Android Phone via OTG cable?

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

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

Hi ! ,

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

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

It worked perfectly with the Archer T3U Plus in kali linux with ARM

Hi all, somebody get run it with kali 2024.3 on a pi5? I have problems with the headers for kernel 6.6.45-v8+.

Works perfectly with my Raspberry 3B+ and the latest Raspberry Pi OS. I am using the TP-Link Archer T3U Plus (AC1300). Thank you so much!

It works the same way for me, thank you. Everything on Pi3 with aarch64 Bookworm.

What about TP-Link Archer T3U Nano V1 - is it compatible? (model without "Plus")

Thanks for this - worked great for my 3d printer running armbian bookworm

I owe you - worked perfectly with the AC1300 on Ubuntu 25.04

i need for RHEL 9.3 (Kernel ver 5.14)

What about TP-Link Archer T3U Nano V1 - is it compatible? (model without "Plus")

Did you confirm? Just bought this one.

Thank you.