Re: wifi dongle connected to USB/pci card, seen in hardware, but no wl* device created; udev, driver, &/or config?

[Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12/5/20 1:25 PM, PGNet Dev wrote:
>      lsusb | grep 008
>          Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
> RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]

That chipset doesn't have a kernel driver.

There are a couple of available options:
https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu
https://github.com/RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver

> existing default udev rules aren't creating a wlan device; I'd expected 
> that they would ...

The device can only be created if there's a driver to create it.