TP-Link leeching off the FOSS community

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TP-Link leeching off the FOSS community
TP-Link leeching off the FOSS community
2022-02-12 18:01:32

Every TP-Link product contains FOSS software, and almost every TP-Link router I know of contains Linux.

 

Why is it TP-Link's business practice to leech off the FOSS community and not support them in return with things like WiFi adapter drivers for Linux?

 

It is extremely disrespectful and selfish.

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Re:TP-Link leeching off the FOSS community
2022-06-01 07:31:05

  @apexstrada just bought an Archer T2U Plus wireless adapter. Didn't work out of the box on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which was the latest Ubuntu LTS at the time. I read nothing but complaints by other people not being able to get it working with other Linux distributions either.

 

I don't even know what you mean by "generic drivers".

 

Only you have are talking about re-writing drivers.

 

Sounds like you haven't been using Linux very long.

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Re:TP-Link leeching off the FOSS community
2022-08-08 17:07:23 - last edited 2022-08-08 17:09:09
  @OkWhatever Try the rtl8812au drivers.

$ sudo apt install git build-essential dkms 
$ git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git 
$ cd rtl8812au
$ sudo ./dkms-install.sh
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