ASUS USB-AC53 Nano

Overview

 * "EW-7822UNC" and "P/C=F119-223" is silkscreened on the board (top).
 * "1246-00000172-50Z" and "1637" is silkscreened on the board (bottom).

A thernal pad is attached to the RTL8812BU IC to conduct heat into the USB connector.

Linux support

 * Driver for Asus USB-AC53 Nano on UbuntuForums
 * Driver for Asus USB-AC53 Nano on UbuntuForums
 * Driver rtl8822bu on Edimax EW-7822ULC: Download

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b05:184c ASUSTek Computer, Inc. usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0b05, idProduct=184c usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11ac NIC usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 123456
 * jeremyb31/rtl8822bu (commit)
 * For linux kernel version > 4.14 jeremyb31's driver will not work so far,
 * but with the changes from you will be fine!


 * MeissnerEffect/rtl8822bu
 * For linux kernel version > 4.15 (init_timer deprecation) check.

None of the above worked for me, but this one did: https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu
 * For linux kernel version 2.6.24 ~ 5.8 (Realtek), 5.9 (Nov,2020)

Easy to follow installation:  https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu

This made my usb-ac53 show up in network(Kubuntu 20.10), but remember to go to network setting and change it to wpa2. It will keep falling to connect to router, which support wpa3. The adapter itself on the other hand is not wpa3 supported.

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