Edimax Nano USB EW-7811Un (RTL8188CUS chipset)

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hi i have raspi 3 and edimax usb wifi
i connot install the driver
i did sudo apt-get update and upgrade

and iwconfig is like this
enxxxxxxxx unassociated Nickname:“WIFI@REALTEK”
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

lo no wireless extensions.

sudo lsubs

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1bcf:0007 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04f3:0103 Elan Microelectronics Corp. ActiveJet K-2024 Multimedia Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

ifconfig
enxxxxx Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxx
inet addr:192.168.1.25 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1437112 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:214132 (214.1 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:27554 (27.5 KB) TX bytes:27554 (27.5 KB)

actually ı would like to do hotspot but i cannot install the driver

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Hi,

your device is listed so that should be okay!.

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]

Try installing the following package:

sudo apt-get install ap-utils

Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux

A set of utilities for remotely administrating a variety of wireless access points via SNMP:

  • ap-auth - update authentication list
  • ap-config - interactively configure or get statistics from devices that support MIB-II, IEEE 802.11 MIB or NWN DOT11EXT MIB and most Atmel-chipset based APs
  • ap-gl - interactively configure or get statistics from
    Atmel Prism-based APs
  • ap-mrtg - get statistics from an AP in MRTG format
  • ap-rrd - get statistics from an AP in RRDtool format
  • ap-tftp - update AP firmware by TFTP
  • ap-trapd - receive, parse and log trap messages from an AP

I hope it helps!. :smiley: