Edimax EW-78111Un V2 wifi setup

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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OK, for all those who are still looking for a solution to make the “EW-78111Un V2” (note the V2) run on a Jetson Nano, latest OS (as of May 2021 kernel 4.9.201-tegra, DeepStream 5.1, JetPack 4.5.1):

This gist worked for me:

  1. Download the driver package from the Edimax page to your Jetson EDIMAX - Downloads

The driver is named

EW-7811Un V2 Linux Driver 1.0.0.3
Support Kernel 2.6.18 ~ 4.14 (Version : 1.0.0.3) 2019-08-13

Mind the V2!

  1. Download, unzip, untar and build
wget https://www.edimax.com/edimax/mw/cufiles/files/download/Driver_Utility/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.0.3.zip
unzip EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.0.3.zip 
cd EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.0.3/
tar xvf rtl8188EUS_linux_v5.3.9_28540.20180627.tar.gz 
cd rtl8188EUS_linux_v5.3.9_28540.20180627/

# The next line is important
export ARCH=arm64
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot now

After that the USB plug should blink at boot and you should have a “wlan0”. You will know what to do with it

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