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One plus 5T lsusb not detecting external wifi adapter rtl 8821au i.e tp link ac600 #36

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@mayurdv

tried everthing, followed exact steps everything got installed properly but external adapter is not woking at all . in lsusb it shows nothing when i do dmesg | tail - 30 just after connecting the external adaptter logs says it has found the card . but it is

kali:/ # uname -r
4.4.302-perf+
kali:/ # cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.4.302-perf+ (root@305230c2eeb2) (Android (8850317, based on r458507) clang version 15.0.1 (https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/llvm-project 640d06f2a4ef16626a747d4c45f9bd9a9fdcef4c)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 7 01:22:29 UTC 2026
iE 'RTL|ATH9K|ATH10K|CARL9170|MT7|RT2800|RT2X00|ZD1211|P54|RTW|CFG80211|MAC80211' | grep -v ' is not set' <
CONFIG_CFG80211=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_CELLULAR_HINTS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y
CONFIG_MAC80211=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_HT=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht"
CONFIG_MAC80211_STA_HASH_MAX_SIZE=0
CONFIG_USB_RTL8150=y
CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=y
CONFIG_RTL8187=y
CONFIG_RTL_CARDS=y
kali:/ # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -iE '8812|8814|8821|8187|88xx|8188'
CONFIG_RTL8187=y

CONFIG_RTL8188EE is not set

CONFIG_RTL8821AE is not set

CONFIG_R8188EU is not set

Please suggest me next steps to get it working

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