Archer T3U plus (solved)

[daniewicz]

I recently purchased an Archer T3U wireless usb dongle. The driver needed is rtl8822bu for the RTL8812BU chip. Is this diver available for Mageia 8?

[doktor5000]

It would help if you would post the output of

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lspcidrake -v

so that we can see what the actual PCI product and vendor IDs are.

[daniewicz]

From MCC

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Identification
Vendor: ‎Realtek

Description: ‎802.11ac NIC

Media class: ‎

Connection
Bus: ‎USB

Bus PCI #: ‎1

PCI device #: ‎7

Vendor ID: ‎0x2357

Device ID: ‎0x0138

Misc
Module: ‎unknown

[doktor5000]

By default our kernel does not know that device ID and does not have an alias for that driver. Here for all realtek devices with 2357 as vendor ID:

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[doktor5000@Mageia8]─[22:24:07]─[~] sudo modprobe -c | grep -iE "2357"
alias usb:v2357p000Dd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc00ip00in* option
alias usb:v2357p0100d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* rtl8192cu
alias usb:v2357p0101d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0103d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0105d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* mt76x0u
alias usb:v2357p0106d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0108d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin* rtl8xxxu
alias usb:v2357p0109d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin* rtl8xxxu
alias usb:v2357p010Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* mt76x0u
alias usb:v2357p010Cd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* r8188eu
alias usb:v2357p010Dd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p010Ed*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p010Fd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0111d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* r8188eu
alias usb:v2357p011Ed*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p011Fd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0120d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0122d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* 8812au
alias usb:v2357p0123d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* mt76x0u
alias usb:v2357p0201d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* option
alias usb:v2357p0201d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in04* qmi_wwan
alias usb:v2357p0601d*dc*dsc*dp*ic02isc06ip00in* r8152
alias usb:v2357p0601d*dc*dsc*dp*ic02isc06ip00in* cdc_ether
alias usb:v2357p0601d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFisc*ip*in* r8152
alias usb:v2357p9000d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* option
alias usb:v2357p9000d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in04* qmi_wwan

You'd probably need to build that driver yourself: https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu
If it's working you could submit a bugreport to include that driver.

[daniewicz]

Building a driver is a bit out of my comfort zone. I was using the T3U on a kubuntu install and getting 200+ Mbps download speeds. Do you have any suggestions for an alternate to the T3U which is capable of this kind of speed and compatible with Mageia?

[doktor5000]

I don't have any specific recommendation.

Maybe have a look at https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/bl ... drivers.md - that list is also from the same project that offers the driver linked to above.

[daniewicz]

I was able to successfully build and install the kernel module 88x2bu.ko. Download speed is where it needs to be. Thanks for the help!

[doktor5000]

You could raise a package request for that if the driver is working so this might get added in the future.

[daniewicz]

How do I do that?

[doktor5000]

The same as a bugreport: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_repor ... ge_request

[daniewicz]

Bug 31962 has been successfully created

[Germ]

Link:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31962