How to install a WiFi driver on Ubuntu

Here is your guide to download and install a WiFi driver for your Ubuntu PC or laptop.

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My HP 14 laptop started giving WiFi issues, so I recently bought a USB WiFi adapter — TP-Link Archer T2U Nano USB WiFi adapter. TP-Link has provided an easy step-by-step guide to download and install a driver for each of its model here. But this works only for Windows and Mac OS.

For any Linux-based OS like Ubuntu 22.04, there seems to be a hell lot of research and tedious work to be done.

Don’t worry, this guide will summarize my learning and experience, and your WiFi will be working in minutes.

1. Plug in your device and check
   In your terminal, run the command lsusb you should get an output like this.

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:b009 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b67f Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HP TrueVision HD Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2357:011e TP-Link AC600 wireless Realtek RTL8811AU [Archer T2U Nano]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub