TP-Link

evert

Yes, I did alleady read all the other posts, but I am not able to fix the following : today I reveived a new Lenovo with TP-Link. How can I please install the drivers ( if available) for this Archer T2U Nano. Thanks for your help.

brent

evert Yes, I did alleady read all the other posts,

I just did too (search: "TP link"). Not a great success rate for this endeavour although one post a user was able to successfully compile the driver and left cryptic instructions. Another post had detailed instructions about how to force the driver being seen....yes none of these are marked solved....and all don't work for different reasons from kernel to incompatible build element.
But the majority of my reading is first they have to locate the drivers in order to not be successful🙂. Did you locate the drivers you need and download them? That seems the only place to start.

evert

brent Thank you very much for your help. Tomorrow I will start locating the drivers.

brent

you got your work cut out for you. there is NO driver for linux offered by the tplink website. just mac and win.

https://ostechnix.com/install-tp-link-ac600-archer-t2u-nano-wifi-usb-adapter-in-linux/
Then I saw this: "Install TP-Link AC600 Archer T2U Nano WiFi USB Adapter In Linux" article. It's a pretty good writeup except:
1) I saw this guy's fine print: "There is no official drivers for Linux. Fortunately, I came across an unofficial driver for Archer T2U Nano on GitHub and it works out of the box on Fedora and Ubuntu systems." His article is a year old maybe things have changed?
2) The compile needs the DKMS package installed and compiled as well.
When I read the forum TP threads, as I said, I noticed that recurring problem. Seems Solus is incompatible (and will not support) with DKMS, whatever DKMS is.

Are there workarounds for these early hamstrings? Beats me. I always say where there's a will there's a way. I believe with enough research and a good github package you could get what you want.

Other than that, wi-fi type stuff is way over my head (I'm a plug-in-the-wall type guy).

evert

brent As promised, I did a lot of research too. I did come to the same conclusion. There is one other possibility. I will report about that tomorrow. Anyway : Thanks Brent.

brent

evert There is one other possibility. I will report about that tomorrow.

Looking forward to it. There has to be another way.

evert

brent I'm sorry. I did not find a solution. I am sorry. Now I have to buy another adapter.

brent

evertI keep thinking there is a targz buried in the haystack somewhere for this tp-link but if you say the road is a dead end, then I believe you. you can probably find something just as good that works with Solus

Axios

It uses the rtl8812au driver maybe look for that I have seen on net it works when ppl install that driver
its a common driver but not sure with solus.
https://www.linux.org/threads/driver-for-tp-link-archer-t2u-nano.31555/
https://dev.getsol.us/T3964

riffer

And this driver has supposedly been tested and works on Solus:

https://github.com/morrownr/8812au-20210629

There are also instructions for Solus when you scroll down.

Axios

This is kinda off topic abit was givin an old blueray player years ago to make long story short
the only thing I kept out of it was the wifi board cut the usb cabe off old mouse hooked it to the usb cable
put it in a neat little box and plugged it into linux and it worked..lol plugged it into solus and it worked. Why my rambling because it was an rtl board dont remb the specs or chipset.
(Just info worthless maybe..lol)

brent

Axios these stories are my favorites. you probably had to make a special mount for that chunk of wifi board inside the case. Amazing it worked

Axios

Ya downloaded at the time the windows drivers for it and ran it even on xp..rofl
Some of that equipment nowdays those wifi boards are usb inside them so a person can steal them and use
them like that cuts down costs I guess for manufacture. I keep it in my stash of backup/troubleshooting equipment.