Dreambox DM7080HD USB Wi-Fi dongle

My Dreambox DM7080HD satellite receiver from 2014 shipped with a USB Wi-Fi adapter:

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It has the FCC ID MQ4WU5501 which tells it that is has been made by Abocom Systems Inc.

When attaching it to a Linux computer we see:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 037: ID 07b8:8188 AboCom Systems Inc AboCom Systems Inc [WN2001 Prolink Wireless-N Nano Adapter]
dmesg
usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 37 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=07b8, idProduct=8188, bcdDevice= 2.00
usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2: Product: RTL8188S WLAN Adapter
usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10
rtl8192cu: Board Type 0
rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
ieee80211 phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
usb 1-2: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
rtl8192cu 1-2:1.0 wlx407b17034d61: renamed from wlan0

The debian package firmware-realtek is required.

It is a PROLiNK WN2001 Wireless Nano USB Adapter with the RTL8188S Realtek chip. Only Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth.

Written by Christian Weiske.

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