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TP Link U3T Ubuntu

This device has the rtl8812bu chipset and you willneed to do a little more work to get it working.
Thankfully there is a working driver available for it here: https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu

To get it working, you will need to first install some packages and check out the Git repo:

sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms git
git clone https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu.git

Then follow the instructions here to install the driver:

cd rtl88x2bu
VER=$(sed -n 's/\PACKAGE_VERSION="\(.*\)"/\1/p' dkms.conf)
sudo rsync -rvhP ./ /usr/src/rtl88x2bu-${VER}
sudo dkms add -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo dkms build -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo dkms install -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo modprobe 88x2bu

References

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