No WiFi adapter found after moving from Windows

Just moved from Windows to Linux Ubuntu, it says I don’t have a WiFi adapter when I have a TP-Link Archer T2U Plus plugged in.

I have looked online and most have said things like connect Ethernet and Mobile Tethering when I don’t have access to both of those.

And I have already disabled Secure Boot.

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 2357:0120 TP-Link Archer T2U PLUS [RTL8821AU] Ubuntu Version 21.04

1 Answer

I have been looking for a proven reliable way to use USB drive as an apt repository and simply apt-get install the prerequisites for the driver. I have, so far, been unsuccessful. I propose another method that will get the prerequisites build-essential and dkms installed.

This method, although it is tedious, will work. The list of deb files you need is this:

Create a folder on your desktop to hold the files. I suggest:

mkdir ~/Desktop/debs

Browse the USB drive and look in pool/main/b for build-essential; in pool/main/d for dkms and dpkg-dev; in pool/main/f for fakeroot and so on. Continue until every package on the list I provided is dragged into the debs folder. Now, back to the terminal:

cd ~/Desktop/debs
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Now let’s install the driver. Download this file on some other computer and transfer it to the Desktop of your Ubuntu computer on a USB drive or similar:

In the terminal, do:

cd ~/Desktop
unzip rtl8812au-5.6.4.2
cd rtl8812au-5.6.4.2
sudo make dkms_install
sudo modprobe 88XXau

Your wireless should now be working.