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 :)

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