- Solved
- Minor
Hello all,
Earlier this week I had mentioned in the rc.1 thread that I was considering buying a NAS to use with Unraid, but was wondering whether USB WiFi adapters would work. The prebuilt I was considering does not have a place to put an internal wireless card and I really want WiFi support. One reply mentioned that they should indeed work as long as they use a supported chipset, of which Realtek was one, and have drivers.
I ended up buying the NAS and installing Unraid on it (very easy!), but I cannot seem to get WiFi to work. I tried two adapters I had lying around the house:
TP-Link Archer T2U Nano
and
ASUS USB-AC68
According to ChatGPT, these use Realtek RTL8811AU and Realtek RTL8814AU chipsets respectively.
The NAS was able to detect that these were plugged in (they showed up in lsusb), but even after rebooting a few times there was no option for WiFi in Settings → Network Settings
I've attached two diagnostics.zip, one attempting to use each wireless adapter.
Maybe they are too old? I've had these for ages (they appear to have released in 2019 and 2016 respectively), and the release notes mention:
QuoteWireless chipset support: We expect to have success with modern WiFi adapters, but older adapters may not work. If your WiFi adapter isn't detected, please start a new forum thread and provide your diagnostics so it can be investigated
If the problem is that they are too old, I would love some recommendations for what might work instead.
Thank you,
Andell
ASUS USB-AC68 nas-diagnostics-20250427-2001.zip TP-Link Archer T2U Nano nas-diagnostics-20250427-1957.zip