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san2222

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[SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Hi,

Is there a way to load the driver for this USB WIFI adapter during Arch install? I am new to linux but have Linux Mint installed on one of my drives and I wish to try Arch on another drive for testing.

lsusb shows the adapter but iwctl lists no devices.

Thanks

Last edited by san2222 (2023-07-20 17:08:09)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Iwctl might just not list devices because the driver uses an older interface rather than the new one, check with wpa_supplicant/nmcli - check dmesg/lsusb -t whether really no driver is loaded or the one that is loaded simply doesn't work with iwctl.

In the case that it flat out doesn't exist, you need to grab https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8 … k-dkms-git use makepkg -o to just get the sources and then compile on the ISO against the ISO kernel... At which point it's probably easier to do the initial install via ethernet or e.g. a phone tether if that's a possibility and then grab that once Arch is installed.

san2222

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Is there a guide somewhere to add that package, for compiling and making the ISO all done in a non Arch distribution? It seems complex from the sound of it.

Thank you

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso

In the case that it flat out doesn't exist

Have you actually confirmed that?
Is the device maybe rfkill'd?

it's probably easier to do the initial install via ethernet or e.g. a phone tether

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san2222

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Doing dmesg|lsusb - t shows there is a device under "Bus 03" as
Port 2: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=, 480M

If I remove the adapter there is nothing listed under "Bus 03". So I guess, this is in fact the USB adapter.

How do I check its rfkill'd?
Thanks

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

With rfkill - but it's probably not gonna work.

Also please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Post the actual "lsusb -t" output and dmesg/system journal - what you posted certainly *looks* like there's no driver assigned to the device, but we'll need to see the journal to comment on why.

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san2222

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Sorry about paraphrasing and not having a log. Will try to get one. Can the logs be saved to another drive? I had to type out the previous dmesg output from my phone.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Can the logs be saved to another drive?

Yes of course. You can redirect the output of anything to any mounted path.

sudo journalctl -b > /mnt/usb_key/journal.txt

I had to type out the previous dmesg output from my phone.

Did you see the tethering suggestion? You can turn your phone into an external ethernet device.

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san2222

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Hi,
Please find the log here
https://pastebin.mozilla.org/mVK0Wd3R

Thanks

On testing, tethering works. I could ping google.com without loss.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Jul 13 11:56:53 archiso kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=2357, idProduct=0120, bcdDevice= 2.00
Jul 13 11:56:53 archiso kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jul 13 11:56:53 archiso kernel: usb 3-2: Product: 802.11ac WLAN Adapter 
Jul 13 11:56:53 archiso kernel: usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Realtek 
Jul 13 11:56:53 archiso kernel: usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

Install arch using your phone as tethering device and then you'll need the AUR driver.
Or a different wifi dongle.

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san2222

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Thank you
I have installed the driver from the link below:
https://github.com/nlkguy/archer-t2u-plus-linux

Please mark post as solved.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] No driver loaded for TP-Link 802.11ac USB WLAN Adapter

Mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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