Support for rtl8188fu WiFi Dongle with Jetson Nano 2GB Kit

[user2340]

I have an Wi-Fi Dongle and used with jetson nano 2GB kit . There is no Wi-Fi interface in ifconfig and also network manager. Then i did lsusb -v the dongle is shown as Realtek Semiconductor id : 0x0bda and product is : 0xF179. I searched it’s product it google show me some github repos as RTL8288FU but can’t build and instaall the driver . So i came here to ask help to use the Wi-Fi Dongle in Jetson Nano 2GB kit. Kindly help me to use it .

[ankithsingh]

Hello @user2340

Can you once please refer this hope this helps you

Make USB WiFi Dongle rtl8812au works on Nano

Here is the step to make the USB WiFi Dongle chipset rtl8812au (0bda:a811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.) works on jetson-nano: Out of box L4T don’t have driver for this rtl8812au chipset. so we need to install the driver manually. Following command needs to be executed on terminal window: sudo apt install git sudo apt install dkms git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux sudo make -f Makefile.dkms install reboot the jetson-nano, your WiFi …

Thank you

[user2340]

Actually the chip is RTL8188fu, Does the above repo work with my chip ?

[ankithsingh]

oh sorry you can check this in this they have also mentioned about cross compile

GitHub - ulli-kroll/rtl8188fu: rtl8188fu driver for linux / rtlwifi prepare

Thank you