I have an Asus USB-N10 Nano B1 (https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/adapters/all-series/usb-n10-nano-b1/) which has a Realtek 8188EUS chip in it. I'm able to make it work with my custom built image.
What I did:
1. git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git
2. cd into the folder and sudo ./compile.sh
3. select expert mode and select orange pi 5 (WIP)
4. go with jammy (supported) and xfce (supported) , or you can probably use other desktop environment but I haven't tested
5. make sure you do not select 3d packages (forgot the name, but it's the first option among browser, editor, multimedia, etc...), otherwise it's black screen when you login to the desktop environment.
6. let it configure
7. it will prompt and ask you something, and make sure you say yes when usb 8188eu comes out, then it will continue configuring
8. select realtek 8188eu under staging drivers
9. build (took about 90 mins on my laptop) and get your custom image under the output folder
The module should load automatically. I'm currently on kernel 5.10.110.
Note that this build also solves the problem that usb-c and usb 2.0 ports aren't working as well.