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rezad

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Registered: 2014-09-17

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tp-link T1U USB WiFi adapter support?

I have bought a tp-link archer T1U wifi usb adapter. but it seems that it has no support in the kernel 4 of linux.
any guide that talks about the chipset MediaTek MT7610U installation is for other adapters.

the tp-link page says this adapter is 5Ghz only but the closest I have got to getting the linux to work with it, the iwconfig show that it is in 2.4Ghz. which means that it has not bean configured correctly.

is there any guide for this specific usb adapter that works with the archlinux kernel? the tp-link only support 2.6-3.10 kernel.

btw, I have tried many git repos and even the metiatek website to download and install the driver but it seems that just adding the hardware id to list of the supported devices doesn't solve anything .

Last edited by rezad (2016-11-20 12:29:50)

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Re: tp-link T1U USB WiFi adapter support?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=MT7610U

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rezad

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Registered: 2014-09-17

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Re: tp-link T1U USB WiFi adapter support?

yes I did use those but please if you want to help check the link that you are sharing and you will see  others like me have asked there too about this device.

the second package wont compile and the first package doesn't even have the device id in it so it wont recognize my device.

Last edited by rezad (2016-11-21 03:25:39)

pumaking

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Registered: 2016-11-09

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Re: tp-link T1U USB WiFi adapter support?

See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commi … e00e96afa3

Replacing the removed defines and adding the USB ID of the Archer T1U worked for me. I also had to add -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types.

It seems like this repo: https://github.com/UlfWetzker/mt7610u_w … o_20130916 already has these changes. You should be able to clone, make, and install.

So far, the Archer T1U works, but I couldn't scan (said resource busy) and unplugging it from the USB port crashed my computer.