On 1/27/23 18:02, mick howe wrote:
I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to ... listed as might work. I tried to build it on the laptop with aur but
1. a way to build the driver for the Archer T3U and/or
3. other options? I have tried Ether of Power setup but the basement my daughter has
(i) I gather from above that the in kernel rtl88 driver doesn't work for usb. My loose recollection is that there is some support for in-kernel modules for some mediatek dongles - details need to be checked. This may be helpful: https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_a... (2) to build kernel modules you need to install the kernel headers package for whatever kernel you want to build against - e.g. pacman -Syu linux-headers (3) Since ether over power didnt work would it work to add a second access point closer even if not all the way? 3.1) best option would be wired - if you can run it far enough to give you signal where you need it. I'm sure you know but adding for completeness - Its super straightforward to do that - just get any wifi router and connect LAN ports - turn of dhcp to avoid problems - give it static ip - and same SSID(s) as primary. 3.2) Alternatively, a wireless extender instead of wired (or add 2 or more mesh if you want to keep pushing extenders). Will cut your bandwidth in half unfortunately but may help. regards, gene