Edimax Wi-Fi 4 802.11n Adapter for PC N150 Nano USB Adapter, 150Mbps, Smallest Wi-Fi 4 Dongle, Win 11 Plug-n-Play, Linux: Ubuntu/Mint Plug-n-Play for Kernel 5.15 and Above, Mac OS, EW-7811Un V2

Simple an functional. Does just what it says 'on the can'. Plug and play without issues.

Fixed late 2012 iMac on Catalina 10.5.7. Had to install driver.

Working well.

It has only been 24 hours, but on a Linux Mint desktop that lost its ethernet connection - it was plug and play. Computer is 45" from the router so it is plenty fast for home use.

Was plug and play with an up to date Ubuntu laptop, so that was nice. As I needed to plug it into there first to get it's MAC Address. So only had it plugged in there for like 2 minutes. Then I plugged it into an older Raspberry Pi zero with a micro USB to female USB to add to a project I was working on that needed to have an IP reservation from my router. Don't know if it was plug and play for the Pi. As in the about 5 minutes before I even got to check if it was online. This was while I was adding the IP reservation. The Edimax got insanely hot, like too hot to even touch without it burning ya. If I had left it in any longer I'm certain it would have started a fire. Or if the wire was laying on fabric and not a table. Suspect I must have gotten a bad one. Issue was 100% the adapter and not the micro USB cable. As the cable was in use for months previous with an ethernet USB adapter and still worked just fine when I went back to the ethernet adapter instead. Can't be 100% certain what happened but that's what I get for buying the cheapest Linux Wi-Fi Adapter I could find. Just tossed it in the trash rather then bother getting my $10 back and to make sure no one else gets hurt by trying to use it.

TL;DR if you bought this for a Linux machine skip the official Edimax drivers (they are out of date and don't work) and do a search for "github lwfinger rtl8188eu". Follow the instructions on that site and reboot and you should have it up and running quickly.I bought this because supposedly Edimax pushes drivers to the Linux kernel and was hoping for an easy plug and play device for my Ubuntu server machine. Not this one. Ok, fine, I'll just get the driver. Well, there are no instructions for obtaining the driver on Linux distributions. Helpfully, Windows and Mac instructions are included in the package but not Linux. However with some searching you can find and download the driver from Edimax' website. Once downloaded (there are still no instructions on the website either, the only way I found out how to install it was actually from Q/A here where Edimax states to first run "make" and then "sudo make install" in the directory after downloading. The drivers Edimax has hosted on their website are woefully out of date (from 2018 or so) and won't even compile on latest Linux kernel (the kernel included with 20.04, kernel version 5.4). If you know your way around gcc and compiling c files it's possible to get it to compile, but installation will then silently fail as some directory does not get copied over into driver folders correctly.Finally I gave up on the Edimax hosted drivers (they technically don't even support kernels later than 4.14 for this device which is probably why it won't compile and install easily) and found someone in the open source world who supports this. The actual networking device inside this USB adapter is the Realtek 8188eu and with a quick internet search using the terms listed above you can find someone who hosts an open source driver specifically for this device and have it up and running quickly.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:The price was right!However, downloading a driver and trying to install on a Raspberry Pi didn't work at all. I have "Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)", and trying the driver that seemed like the closest didn't get anywhere at all. A colleague suggested that the adapter was old enough that it just should work with this OS. Luckily, I somehow got it working. Although, the signal strength is always towards the weak end, despite being 15 feet from the router. Anyway, it works.

Works out of the box on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.