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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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odhiambo commented Jan 17, 2023

@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.

hackerdatascientist commented Mar 24, 2023

Thx TILL 108 IE INFINITY

rudra007369 commented Apr 15, 2023

is it support moniter mode
and packet injection

esatiyev commented May 12, 2023

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

Author

julianlam commented May 12, 2023

The instructions are literally in this blog post/gist

ailequal commented May 17, 2023

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

xxiMiaxx commented May 27, 2023

thank you this installation works on ubuntu 20.04.1 kernal 5.15 !

Author

julianlam commented May 27, 2023

No worries, happy this helped 😊

keenkane commented May 31, 2023

Thanks bro!

svedev0 commented Jul 2, 2023

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

Naveen0987 commented Sep 10, 2023

thanks dude it works on kali linux

directentis1 commented Sep 12, 2023

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

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