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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?

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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!

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

How do I do that?

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

Bug 31962 has been successfully created

Link:

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