TP Link T2 PLUS drivers

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Hi, I’ve been playing around with Manjaro and it’s nice, so I decided to ditch windows on my PC and go all in on linux. Now my problem is I got a USB adapter to get wifi on the PC and I can’t figure out how to get the drivers installed for it (wifi just worked on the laptop.) Since I can’t get internet on the PC, my options are to find the files on my laptop, stick it on a USB stick and plug it into the PC. Can anyone help my beginner self with this problem? Please and Thank You.

Edit: found a similar thread, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it, but I did run these commands:
inxi -Nazy
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200

lsusb output
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2357:0120 TP-Link Archer T2U PLUS [RTL8821AU]

uname-r output

6.12.48-1-MANJARO

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The driver is available from the AUR (Arch User repository). Make certain that you have the appropriate Linux headers for your kernel and dkms and base-devel package installed as well.

Note: from the AUR page: You may have better luck with the following driver:

To all having an issue with this driver: 
Please try this alternate package: 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtw88-dkms-git.

Install via Pamac GUI or in terminal:

pamac build rtl8821au-dkms-git

OR
pamac build rtw88-dkms-git

Reboot

Please read these as well:

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This is the solution, thank you.

I actually arrived at that on my own, but it’s nice to get confirmation that that’s what I should have done.

EDIT for anyone who’s having the same problem, I used bluetooth tethering from my phone to access the internet. It wasn’t very fast with my phone but i found out I could tether with a USB cable which was way faster

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