Well, while trying to do some troubleshooting to get this device working I found a blog where we get an explanation about how to get it working. This worked with Debian, didn't test it with other Linux distribution. The site is https://trollingheavy.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/d-link-dwa-131-rev-e-on-linux/ Just in case that blog dissapears, I'm doing copy & paste of the instructions provided ('cause I know I'm going to need them in the future again): " Early models in round cases used chipsets which now have inbuilt support (rev A- realtek 8192su, rev B – realtek 8192cu), but the newer ones (revision E) use a realtek 8192eu. There is a driver available from D-Link, but for me it was a kernel-panicky mess. This is a list of instructions that I used to install a driver hosted by github user jpostma which seems to be the official realtek driver with patches (for what? not sure, but it works) applied. User Brainiarc7 suggests using https...