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For the last two weeks I have been trying to install a T3U usb wireless adapter. I have read up on the ubuntu tutorial on how the programming works and have managed to install the driver from https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8822bu (I hope I remembered that correctly) with help from various sources on these pages. However the T3U doesn't work because Ubuntu does not detect it. lsusb gives

graham@graham-System-Product-Name:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04f9:0254 Brother Industries, Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 1bcf:0c31 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. SPIF30x Serial-ATA bridge
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2357:012d  
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

If I try lshw, I get this:

graham@graham-System-Product-Name:~$ lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
graham-system-product-name  
    description: Computer
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smp vsyscall32
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       physical id: 0
     *-memory
          description: System memory
          physical id: 0
          size: 3933MiB
     *-cpu
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          size: 2100MHz
          capacity: 2100MHz
          width: 64 bits
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl cpuid extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch vmmcall lbrv cpufreq
     *-pci:0
          description: Host bridge
          product: RS780 Host Bridge
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fa000000-fbdfffff ioport:d6000000(size=167772160)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: GK208B [GeForce GT 710]
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
                resources: irq:29 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d8000000-dfffffff memory:d6000000-d7ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
           *-multimedia
                description: Audio device
                product: GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
                version: a1
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
                resources: irq:19 memory:fbd7c000-fbd7ffff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
             physical id: 4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:25 memory:fbe00000-fbefffff
           *-usb
                description: USB controller
                product: EJ188/EJ198 USB 3.0 Host Controller
                vendor: Etron Technology, Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: xhci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
                resources: irq:27 memory:fbef8000-fbefffff
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
             physical id: 6
             bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:26
        *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 11
             bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=64
             resources: irq:28 ioport:d000(size=8) ioport:c000(size=4) ioport:b000(size=8) ioport:a000(size=4) ioport:9000(size=16) memory:f9fff800-f9fffbff
        *-usb:0
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 12
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:16 memory:f9ffe000-f9ffefff
        *-usb:1
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 12.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:16 memory:f9ffd000-f9ffdfff
        *-usb:2
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 12.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:17 memory:f9fff000-f9fff0ff
        *-usb:3
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 13
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:18 memory:f9ffc000-f9ffcfff
        *-usb:4
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 13.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:18 memory:f9ffb000-f9ffbfff
        *-usb:5
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 13.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:19 memory:f9ffa800-f9ffa8ff
        *-serial
             description: SMBus
             product: SBx00 SMBus Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 3a
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: cap_list
             configuration: driver=piix4_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:0
        *-ide
             description: IDE interface
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide isa_compatibility_mode_controller__supports_both_channels_switched_to_pci_native_mode__supports_bus_mastering bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pata_atiixp latency=64
             resources: irq:16 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:ff00(size=16)
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=64
             resources: irq:16 memory:f9ff4000-f9ff7fff
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-pci:3
             description: PCI bridge
             product: SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.4
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master
             resources: memory:fbf00000-fbffffff
           *-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: AR2413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg]
                vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
                physical id: 7
                bus info: pci@0000:04:07.0
                logical name: wlp4s7
                version: 01
                serial: 00:13:46:6e:90:58
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k driverversion=5.3.0-53-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.1.1.60 latency=168 link=yes maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
                resources: irq:21 memory:fbff0000-fbffffff
        *-usb:6
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.5
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=64
             resources: irq:18 memory:f9ff9000-f9ff9fff
     *-pci:1
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 101
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:2
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 102
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:3
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 103
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:4
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 104
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=k8temp
          resources: irq:0
     *-scsi
          physical id: 2
          logical name: scsi4
          capabilities: emulated
        *-cdrom
             description: DVD-RAM writer
             product: DVDRAM GH60N
             vendor: HL-DT-ST
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/cdrom
             logical name: /dev/cdrw
             logical name: /dev/dvd
             logical name: /dev/dvdrw
             logical name: /dev/sr0
             version: UG00
             capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
  *-scsi:0
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@3
       logical name: scsi3
       capabilities: scsi-host
       configuration: driver=usb-storage
  *-scsi:1
       physical id: 2
       bus info: scsi@7
       logical name: scsi7
       capabilities: scsi-host
       configuration: driver=usb-storage
  *-scsi:2
       physical id: 3
       bus info: scsi@8
       logical name: scsi8
       capabilities: scsi-host
       configuration: driver=usb-storage
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.

If as suggested I run it as sudo lshw all I get is "USB" and it hangs, and it hangs and it hangs and does nothing more (I left it overnight and it was still the same in the morning). I have been informed by Jos that in lsusb, Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2357:012d is my wireless adapter. I have installed the driver from github (compliments of Jeremyb31) but still nothing happens. One of the paths I tried (sorry can't remember how I did it) says there is "information missing" which is why Ubuntu knows it's there but doesn't know how to use it. Does anyone know how to fix this problem please?

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  • Bus 008 device 002 is your TP-Link device. You can look up the vendor-device codes of a USB device here: usb-ids.gowdy.us/read/UD/2357/012d
    – Jos
    Jun 5, 2020 at 7:48
  • Thank you Jos. The info shows it to be [Realtek RTL8812BU]. All the posts that I have read say install RTL8822BU drivers which is what I have done. Have I installed the wrong thing?
    – gappy100
    Jun 5, 2020 at 9:11
  • I suppose you have rebooted at some point. Is the module loaded? Do lsmod or lsmod | grep rtl8822bu.
    – Jos
    Jun 5, 2020 at 9:33
  • I have rebooted many times. I see in the lsmod result a few references to codec_realtec. When I type lsmod | grep rtl8822bu , nothing seems to happen, it just goes to the next command line.
    – gappy100
    Jun 5, 2020 at 10:06
  • Did you take a look here: askubuntu.com/questions/1178802/… ?
    – Jos
    Jun 5, 2020 at 10:17

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Well after a couple of very frustrating weeks trying to install this wireless adaptor, I have found a fix to the problem and I thought I would share it. Aokneufi from the TP-Link Soho community posted the following reply to the question of installing a T4U on kali linux: Ubuntu:

apt update

apt install rtl8812au-dkms

It works for my T3U. I can now relax and enjoy the internet on 5G.

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