Raspberry Pi wireless RTL8188eus set up

I was looking for a wireless dongle that Raspberry Pi suppors in order to set my pi free and I bought this item from ebay. It is a Comfast CF-WU810N-2 dongle. (the item says N-1 but I got an N-2-a new version). The dongle has a Realtek 8188eus chipset. You can find more information about the supported chips and models in this page.

No one expects a smooth setup when it comes to wireless USB dongles on Linux (but hopes). As expected I needed to try many workarounds and different websites to make it work.

At the end I found the one: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=462982#p462982

It is so simple:

• check your kernel version 
• find the corresponding file name from the tables
• download the file from dropbox
• unzip & install

that's all..

After you follow the steps you should be seeing wlan0 when running ifconfing. 

One thing to consider after setting up the wireless dongle is to save the name and the password of your wireless network. Here you can find  a tutorial in which you can update the /etc/network/interfaces file according to the security method your network uses.