Here’s the website with the list of the drivers for this thing. On any laptop that doesn’t have a disk drive (like the provided netbooks for rookies) there’s a very good chance the drivers can’t be installed any other way. Now you can get back to robots!
http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php?sub=driverdetail&PItemID=136
(Get the big installer files if you want something easier/are on Windows 8/10. Windows does not know best when it comes to drivers…)