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Recently I purchased this wifi adapter to booster my built-in laptop wifi speed to ac1900 speed, however i faced difficulties installing the driver of this wifi adapter and get it work on mx linux.

can any expert give some guide, i read the official tutorial but still cant get it work after entered those command lines.
https://static.tp-link.com/2018/201812/ ... 0Linux.pdf

$ uname -r
4.19.0-6-amd64

reference: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/down ... v1/#Driver

Can anyone guide me

The driver hosted at TP-Link hasn't been updated for newer kernels. I've found two separate projects that have updated it.
https://github.com/gnab/rtl8812au
and
https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au

The second one has good directions, and if installed according to their dkms intructions should rebuild automatically for kernel updates up to 5.9

I recently went through this experience when I got the AC1300 Archer T3u USB Wifi adapter for an older laptop to boost the slow wifi speeds so that user experience would be much better. I found this link to support the Tp-Link Archer T3U USB Wifi adapter --> https://tutorialforlinux.com/how-to-ins ... x-distros/

It was a good learning experience to git clone the latest driver and install the driver into MX-21 for the older laptop. And it worked! That was the great part. I used kernel 5.10 and then upgraded to 5.14 and it worked for both kernels. So for those who wanted to know if the T3U USB Wifi is supported on MX-21, yes it is!

Just don't forget to disable the built-in wifi -> wlan0 (in my case), so upon reboot, the wlan1 will take precedence.