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RTL8821AU ejectable?

NonStandardUser
By NonStandardUser
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I just bought a USB wireless LAN card that has a RTL8821AU chipset... comes with the realtek wireless utility and all of those stuff, but somehow, the adapter appears as an EJECTABLE MEDIA. It doesn't do anything, but it's very annoying, and the worst part is that one wrong click could send this gear haywire. Does anyone have any suggestions about solving this?

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6 minutes ago, leaderkys said:

Does anyone have any suggestions about solving this?

But there is nothing to be solved here, it is just behaving as it is supposed to.

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19 minutes ago, Ross Scarlet said:

Well thats normal for USB devices..

 

16 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

But there is nothing to be solved here, it is just behaving as it is supposed to.

The USB adapter that I was using did not have this behavior. It acted like an internal component; this thing wants to be a fricking USB memory stick.

Come on.

 

Just in case I was not being clear enough, the tray icon of safely remove hardware and eject media pops up. The thing you get mostly for USB sticks, not adapters like this. Or is this actually common? I don't really think that's likely...

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16 minutes ago, leaderkys said:

 

The USB adapter that I was using did not have this behavior. It acted like an internal component; this thing wants to be a fricking USB memory stick.

Come on.

I'm asuming this behaviour is hardcoded to the LAN card's driver itself. Theres probably a way with a registry tweak to set it as a non-removable device.

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