TP-LINK PCI Express 1x Wi-Fi card
I installed this TP-LINK PCI Express x1 Wi-Fi card in an SFF desktop PC.
It was immediately recognized by Windows, but you should not rely on this recognition.
It works, but it is preferable to visit the TP-LINK website to download the driver with reference v. 3.20 at the following address: https://www.tp-link.com/fr/support/download/tl-wn781nd/#Driver.
Indeed, the "made in" Windows driver overloads startup by trying to activate all the OS startup services, and you may notice slowdowns and other bugs after some logins to the Windows desktop.
As for Linux, I know from testing that under Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13, the chip is poorly recognized by both distributions; I have not tested it with Ubuntu 26.04.
Indeed, under the Linux distributions I have just mentioned, these same distributions leave a slew of logs that weigh down the distributions.
