The good news is that your adapter is connecting to the router (apparently using the 2.4Ghz band). For all I know, I had the same problem you have (that is, the WU1300S was connecting to the 2.4Ghz band because it didn't see the 5Ghz band) and I didn't know it. It all happens behind the curtain since I set the router up that way. The router selects 5Ghz if the adapter supports 5Ghz, and 2.4Ghz otherwise. I have my router set up to display a single SSID (no differentiation between bands). Here's the "However": When I had the WU1300S installed on my machine, I didn't notice whether or not it identified both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks. So I'm baffled as to why the adapter isn't seeing 5Ghz networks. That is exactly what I set up and it worked (however, see below).
As I understand it, you installed the driver using the Tomomi script from this forum, which works.
The Cudy WU1300S adapter is the same one I used, and it does take the RTL88x2bu driver. Or, if that's all entirely too complicated, how would I go about ensuring a given wifi card would work on Solus before buying it?
would I need to do something with those? I had assumed that tar.gz they had was just to install the drivers, the same ones I had installed separately, but maybe that's the problem?
which it is, but in that it has drivers in a tar.gz for Deb/Ubuntu/Arch (so it works via apt get, pacman, and I forget the other one) that you can instal via the Terminal (and a helpful instal guide to boot, for those distros) it got me kinda confused, until I started messing with this, since this stick says it's linux compatible.
Unfortunately, I'm not nearly experienced enough to know how to tell if a wifi stick would work off the linux kernel, and I'm on a pretty low budget- when googling it the wifi sticks were all like 30-50 bucks on the low end if they explicitly said they're native capable, and reading further, a lot of sticks say they're "native capable" which just means "drivers were tested on a linux machine, but not necessarily using the Linux kernel. It seemed like they were installed properly. I Downloaded the RTL88x2BU drivers, following the instructions I found in this forum (linked in the original post), the Cudy website said that model (ed: to clarify, it is the WU1300S) uses the RTL88x2BU drivers. Each file type has a slighty different installation procedure to follow.įor more help, visit our Driver Support Page for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.Tomscharbach Yes, I am unable to see any 5Ghz networks. For example, you may have downloaded an EXE, INF, ZIP, or SYS file. Tech Tip: Driver downloads and updates come in a variety of file formats with different file extensions.
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