This is still the best driver for my device, and yet is depricated.

[draxil]

I know an issue may not be the best way to communicate this, and feel free to close it; however this driver remains the only one which will run my TL-WN822N properly and remains vastly superior to the rtl8xxxu driver.

The reason this is a problem is that I feel people will see that this driver is deprecated and the rtl8xxxu is recommended as a replacement. For my device it (rtl8xxxu) claims to work, connects very slowly and with no LED inidation. Where as this driver remains excellent, connects at full speed and the LED works.

For anyone out there struggling with a device like mine I'd urge them to still try this driver, despite it being deprecated.

[CGarces]

Hi

Deprecated means not maintained any more. It just works for you on your current configuration, but it will change in the future, for example not compile anymore on kernel 5.8 due recent changes.
https://travis-ci.org/github/CGarces/rtl8192cu-fixes/jobs/704249958

Consider open a well documented bug report on your distribution about your problems with TL-WN822N.

[lautaromss]

@CGarces I just wanted to say that I have the same TL-WN822N v3 and under the latest Ubuntu 20.4 your stuff in this repository was the ONLY way to make it work (at least with my knowledge).

I don't know what's up with that rtl8xxxu but my Ubuntu didn't come with that and other tutorials suggest to disable it anyways; my OS seemed to come with a generic rtl8192cu and I followed a ton of tutorials about installing some "8192eu" driver that never worked even though it installed correctly.

After hours and hours of not making it work, I saw several people in askubuntu saying that this repo despite the deprecation warning was the best, so I gave it a shot. Typed your commands and now it works like a charm. I have 100x more speed (it was working before with the out-of-the-box driver but with insanely low speeds).

I think if you put a message in the README.md clarifying that, deprecated or not, a lot of people still find it as the best solution specially for TL-WN822N, you might save a lot of people hours of trying other stuff.

[MiChaelinzo]

i have tl-wn823n v2 works well for me currently using it in kali linux monitoring and sniffing