Edimax AC1750 Wi-fi Recognition Issue

For the last few days, I've been trying to set up a Edimax AC1750 USB Wi-Fi Adapter, with no success. I started with the drivers they give you here, and found that I got a make error:

/home/ben/Desktop/EW7833UAC_linux_4.3.21_kernel_3.16-4.4/EW7833UAC_linux_v4.3.21_17997.20160531/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.c:14004:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘is_compat_task’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] if(is_compat_task()) ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/home/ben/Desktop/EW7833UAC_linux_4.3.21_kernel_3.16-4.4/EW7833UAC_linux_v4.3.21_17997.20160531/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/ben/Desktop/EW7833UAC_linux_4.3.21_kernel_3.16-4.4/EW7833UAC_linux_v4.3.21_17997.20160531/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.o] Error 1
Makefile:1491: recipe for target '_module_/home/ben/Desktop/EW7833UAC_linux_4.3.21_kernel_3.16-4.4/EW7833UAC_linux_v4.3.21_17997.20160531' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ben/Desktop/EW7833UAC_linux_4.3.21_kernel_3.16-4.4/EW7833UAC_linux_v4.3.21_17997.20160531] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.8.0-53-generic'
Makefile:1699: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

I figured I could get around this a few ways, so I installed ndisgtk and installed the Windows driver for the adapter. Ndisgtk says the device is present when the driver is loaded; this is supported by lsusb, which stated there is a device

bus 001 Device 008: ID 7392:a833 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd

attached to my system. However, the network manager does not recognize that there are any devices capable of getting WiFi, so I'm a bit confused. Suggestions?

1 Answer

This worked for my Edimax

sudo apt install git dkms
git clone
sudo dkms add ./rtl8814AU
sudo dkms install rtl8814AU/1.0

Reboot