Pi Zero with Edimax EW-7811Un

seymourbutttz

Does the newest build of RetroPie come pre-installed with the drivers for the Edimax EW-7811Un wifi USB adapter? If not can they be loaded with a USB drive?

suprjami

These use the 8192cu driver which has been included in Raspbian since 2013 or so. You'll find a lot of old tutorials about compiling the driver from source but this should not be required anymore, just plug in and configure wifi like usual.

Dochartaigh

This is the only topic about this bluetooth/wifi dongle...and not too old so thought I would comment:

The Edimax EW-7611ULB combo bluetooth/wifi dongle DOESN'T work in Retropie 4.1.X on a Raspberry Pi Zero. "Compiling" is something that's a foreign topic to 99% of RetroPie users...anything easy? (i.e. a couple terminal commends spelled out exactly would be ideal! ;) - would love to get this to work on a Raspberry Pi Zero with limited ports.

I've already tried other online tutorials written for non-RetroPie (linux systems) as well and none seemed to work - don't know if it's because of the exact flavor of Jessie RetroPie uses or what...

Herackalack

@Dochartaigh Did you ever figure this out? I've just picked up the EW-7611ULB and am trying to get it to work with my pi zero

Dochartaigh

It seems to be quite simple "they" say....if you know how to compile on Linux (which I barely even know what that is ;)

If my memory serves I got some of it to work following this tutorial. And this was 2 months ago but I had some problems with it... I think it was something like I got WiFi to work, but then when I got to the Bluetooth part of the directions I wouldn't get that to work in addition to the WiFi (or the WiFi bricked the bluetooth or vice versus....I just gave up - it's NOT worth it to me to spend like 10+ hours on something everybody is telling me is already baked into the software (and/or how it's "so easy" to compile the drivers yourself...). Still have the dongle gathering dust though...

Regardless, all this is kinda pointless for the Zero's now that the W (wireless and Bluetooth) model came out - and cheaper to just buy that instead of this combo dongle.