How to get D-Link DWA-182 Rev. D1 running under Linux

I recently bought a D-Link DWA-182 Revision D1. The label says 'H/W Ver.:D1 F/W Ver.:4.00'. Unfortunately, the Linux Kernel does not ship the required driver. How can I get the wlan stick working?

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D-Link provides a driver compatible with Linux 4.9 and older on its website:

There one can download the driver for Rev. D. In the archive there is a subfolder named "driver" which contains the code for the linux kernel module. Provided the necessary dependencies, the module can be compiled by invoking make. For convenience, I created a Github repository containing just the driver and brief build instructions:

Unfortunately, the driver is not compatible with Kernel 4.16. I did not try any Kernel inbetween 4.9 and 4.16.

Update:

I patched out all the compile issues when using Linux 4.16. Using the master branch of the aforementioned GitHub repo, one can build a working kernel module. I did not perform extensive testing, but I am uploading this update using the DWA-182 on Linux 4.16. Many thanks to all the open source projects whose patches I used.

This hardware uses a RTL8812BU chipset, according to:

For this chipset, try the following commands:

sudo apt update sudo apt install -y git git clone cd rtl8822bu make sudo make install sudo modprobe 88x2bu 

Update for Ubtunu 18.04 on Kernel 4.15.0-60

fails

but

works like charm