Tp Link Tl-wn722n V1

[Glauco Schlembach]

HelloI have a tp-link tl-wn722n and I'd like to add it to my netgear WNDR3700's usb to act as a wireless client (WWAN). Right now the neatgear's 2.4ghz is acting as a client and the 5ghz as the actual wifi network. I want to substitute the wifi with the usb wifi adapter, but I don't know how.

Not ideal, but, can you test with a different WiFi dongle by chance Keenan? What I want to determine is, does the source of the problem exist in DBUS / WiFi-Connect, or, is the particular WiFi adapter the cause here. Thanks!

I guess the answer is extremely simple and horrifying at the same time: Version 2 vs. Version 1

TL;DR - there are different versions of this card. v1 is with Atheros, v2 with RealTek Chipset. v2 is basically not useable, I guess maybe you got this one? - maybe something to add to the Wiki page?

I had some problems with plain Raspbian back in the day with a similar issue and there was some workaround, but that was basically hacking together kernel modules. It worked in the end, but was unreliable. Trying to do something in balenaOS would probably not something you could do for production usage, if at all. You would need to build your own versions yourself - to be honest - it is not worth the hassle. I am telling you that as (see above) already burned child, in the end I changed to Atheros in my project and was very happy with that.

I have not yet bought anything in the last 4+ years, so no.

But in your case, I would just look for some USB Wifi Sticks with Atheros AR9271 in them and that should do the trick (I think Ebay and other sources should have them :))

Haha yeah I would love to identify a wifi dongle that works well with Wifi connect as an access point that you can reliably buy in the US from a vendor that is not EBay haha. Any suggestions would be great

The recommended TL-WM725N utilizes both the RTL8188CUS and RTL8188EUS depending on the version. The ones I just purchased from Amazon are running RTL8188EUS. I can see and connect to Wifi networks, but WiFI-Connect fails to initialize an AP and the captive portal.

If you look at the commit history for the wifi-dongles.md in the docs it was up dated on Oct 19th. Before that I think it looked like this (wifi-dongles: update list balena-io/docs@299c525 GitHub) which clearly lists the TL-WN725N. I am not great with github commit history so I could be understanding the history here.

There also was a link somewhere to the Elinux Wifi Adapater page which, in the footnotes, does list the TL-WN725N as working with AP mode. That was probably a bad reach on my part to bridge the two docs and assume it would function.

Hello! I have installed the driver: RTL8188EU for the TP-Link TL WN722N V2 network adapter. The wifi works, but when I'm trying to run the command airmon-ng there is no PHY and no Chipset and when I try to run the command airodump-ng mon0 i get an error. It should work because the adapter supports monitoring networks. I'm running Kali Linux in VirtualBox on a Mac Book Air 2015. Here is the pictures of the terminal:

It will work. Monitor mode is supported on the RTL8188. AP mode is not supported yes, but monitor should be. I have a V2 myself and monitor mode works just fine. You need to have the right patches and downloads though. It's not worth the work i put in just to make it work, but it's definitely supported and doable!

Senpais, may you tell us how to solve the problem with a guide or link a guide for v2 of TP-Link? I know its not worth it but if somebody makes it just ones everbody who bought this shitty adapter who cant solve this problem at this point because they are beginners may have lesser headache.. I am working on this shit since monday :(

Hi,

Thank you for sharing your experience.

I do have the tplink adapter and I am presently connected via wired, the adapter is plugged in , it is detected

/net/connman/technology/wifi

Name = WiFi

Type = wifi

Powered = False

Connected = False

Tethering = False

however it needs activating, when i do activate it either via the myosmc network tab or via the ssh I lose control of the rpi it simply disconnects from the network since I notice everytime I activate the wifi it disconnects the lan so putty can not see the lan ip anymore and the mobile remote Yatse also loses control of it, I must say that i am using the rpi 1 B+ and I installed osmc on a usb stick so the two ports usb ports are occupied by the stick and the adapter.

I could not figure out how to overcome this issue.

Thanks

Everytime after plugging the USB, the laptop would freeze. No mouse, no keyboard inputs, no lights on the USB device. Sometimes the CAPS light would blink though... sometimes. I had to press and hold the power button to turn off / do hard reset. Then it would still boot again, like nothing happenned (maybe there are stuffs written to the kernel log or others, but I have no expertises to diagnose much of it). Basically the OS freezes, once I plugged in the USB Wifi.

I use the same Wi-Fi adapter as you. On Trisquel 9, with a 4.15 kernel. I believe the same kernel you would get by installing the package named "linux-generic-hwe-8.0" (for instance from the "Synaptic Package Manager") and rebooting.

See more details in information webpage for TL-WN722N V2; And in the Driver tab of this information webpage, you could download source code of driver for TL-WN722N V2. I have provided the download link in the Reference section.

Hello! I hope you guys are doing fine, I decided to create an account in the forum since a few days ago I started reading this forum and ended up recycling an old desktop pc to have LibreELEC.

I had read that the Tl-wn722n dongle was instantly recognized. Which is true, without drivers or anything special, works! The problem is that speedtest (in kodi) detects me 8mb download speeds (maximum 15 and in a very volatile way) when trying different distances with respect to my modem there was not much difference .. then I tried on another pc that I have with windows and with the same distance, the minimum speed that I was able to capture was 30-40mb (my internet connection via ethernet cable is 300 + mb download) so i searched a bit in google and i saw that that dongle need to download/touch some config in linux (is my first time with linux) so i really don't know how to open the linux command prompt from libreelec or something.. sorry if someone asked this before (didn't saw it) and thanks.. sorry if the questions is dumb!

Hello! Thank you very much for your answer. I was able to access with putty, the problem is that the guide I was following made me use the apt-get command to download some Realtek drivers, but apparently it is not possible to do apt-get with LibreELEC.

This problem seems to be quite common with this dongle, if you want I can provide you with some askubuntu links, the solution is always very similar from what I am reading

... I had read that the Tl-wn722n dongle was instantly recognized. Which is true, without drivers or anything special, works! The problem is that speedtest (in kodi) detects me 8mb download speeds (maximum 15 and in a very volatile way) ...

Don't think too much, you have an old WiFi adapter and not suitable for multimedia, not even using Windows. Your adapter could theoretically work but the requirements are so demanding that this is highly unlikely (the biggest problem in the 2.4GHz band is interference). Buy an adapter that works on the 5GHz band and your problems will disappear if your access point is not far away and the level of interference is small. Despite everything, from time to time you will see frozen images for a few moments.

Also take the opportunity to look at wikipedia something about WiFi networks Wi-Fi - Wikipedia, taking into account that the theoretical maximum speeds are half the link speed because they are half duplex links.

I live in Argentina, for several years this country has problems with the importation of products and if there is a very specific 5ghz model, the truth is that it is very unlikely that it exists in the local market, importing the product is a possibility (difficult, but possible) but the reality is that there is not a detailed list here (and from what I investigated in this forum there will not be) of dongles or wifi antennas that work directly out of the box, in fact yesterday I bought the Tl-WN722n because I read in this same forum that it worked (and it's true, it works but halfway)

As I told you, this does not have to do with interference and 2.4ghz bands since in my router I have an option to "scan" the other nearby wi-fi and see what channel they are on, yesterday I put my wifi on a channel that does not It was in use by nobody (neighbors), with the same usb extender I put the antenna literally 1 meter (3.3' feet) from my modem / router and the speed it received was the same (maximum 20mb) the antenna picks up and supports up to 150mb and my internet ranged between 300 and 320mb so if I would be receiving half of that I would be more than satisfied, I would be more than satisfied honestly, even with only 50mb.

Nor is it the wifi antenna since testing on a windows pc the mbps it receives is much higher (from 30 to 50mb)

As you can see this problem has already been solved in Ubuntu, but since LibreELEC is a custom linux for what I understand is not possible for the user to install those things.

wireless - WiFi connection run very slow in Ubuntu 16.04 (USB Stick) - Ask Ubuntu

wireless - Internet speed slow on Ubuntu 18.04.1 with TP-LINK TL-WN821N - Ask Ubuntu

networking - Internet speed really slow in linux but not in Windows - Ask Ubuntu

My ethernet speedtest :

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