TP-Link AC1900 V2.0 Archer T9UH USB Wireless dongle.

Neumie

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone has this wireless dongle up and running (The TP-link AC1900 Archer T9UH V2). As far as I can tell its using the Realtek 8814au chipset.
It didn't work when i plugged it in. There seems to be a device ID but i don't think there is any driver for it. The hardware drivers app also found nothing for it.

There is some stuff about compiling a driver and it only being supported in certain kernel ranges (up to 4.9 or something). I was just wondering if anyone has this up and running on Solus already and if there was anything specific needed to get it working before i go digging further.

Unfortunately I didn't read the small print when I bought it 😅 .

Thanks,
Neumie.

Justin

What's the output of lsusb?

Neumie

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 004: ID 045e:028e Microsoft Corp. Xbox360 Controller Bus 003 Device 005: ID 2357:0106 TP-Link Bus 003 Device 002: ID 28de:1142 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:081b Logitech, Inc. Webcam C310 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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Seems that it's RTL8814AU which isn't in the kernel, so it's unlikely there's a driver in Solus repository.
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_Archer_T9UH

Here's a driver that might or might not work (needs to be compiled, of course): https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au

Neumie

[deleted] Aye that's what i was suspecting. Thanks 🙂.
I saw that driver before as well as a bunch of other packages maintained by different people. In the end i went with:
https://github.com/tpircher/rtl8814AU
The maintainer specifically made it for my model of wireless dongle. I am up and running now.

In case it helps anyone (I haven't compiled stuff on Solus before):
Dependencies: gcc, binutils, make, linux-current-headers (or linux-headers if you are on the LTS kernel).

Download and unpack the driver.
Open a terminal where you unpacked it.
Run the following commands:

make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8814au

That should get the dongle working. The only thing is my connection seems to be pretty flaky so I need to look into that. It goes at full speed for a bit then the speed collapses to a few Mb/s.