Wireless network not available but lsusb is showing device

[riker1]

Hi

wondering why in MyOSMC
the wireless is not shown
but lsusb

is showing

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]

Anyone having an idea?

What am I missing?

thanks T

[fzinken]

@riker1

What am I missing?

A driver for that device

This Wifi Dongle is currently not supported under OSMC and looks it might not trivial to compile drivers by yourself

[riker1]

Hi,
but I was using it a while back…
I am using this dongle on “normal” debian.

…

thanks

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@riker1

but I was using it a while back…

Check this thread

No WiFi on my OSMC on RPi2 using Edimax EW-7811Un

I have an RPi2, on which I have OSMC installed since many years. It is now running Kodi 18.9 on OSMC 2020.11-1 It is connected by Ethernet and works fine then. Now I need to move it to my summer home and then I cannot use Ethernet since there is no wiring for that. I need WiFi and I have used that previously using an EdiMax adapter, but now it won’t recognize it. This is what I get as diagnostics: $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireles…

[riker1]

ok thanks

[sam_nazarko]

We should reintroduce support for some more WiFi drivers later this year as well as announce a new WiFi dongle.