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Yup. No driver, I'm afraid. It'll be one of the odd Realtek ones.
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One more thing we could try, just in case...
This sort of kicks the kernel to make it restart network things, just in case:
sudo bash -c 'rfkill list ; iwconfig ; mokutil --sb-state'
Well, I can tell you what's wrong. Not necessarily how to fix it.
You need a driver to use this WiFi.
Which probably means working out the model of the wifi, finding the driver, downloading it somehow, and then installing it.
Did it show up as a WiFi device? Or did it call itself a hub?
Could you try running this command in a terminal, and whilst it is running, pull out the usb wifi and put it back in a couple times:
watch -n 1 lsusb