Finding Packages for USB WiFi Adapters

Hello! I am trying to make a portable router that sends all the traffic through Tailscale to my home network. For this I am using a Raspberry Pi B+ and two WiFI USB adapters that I had laying around. These adapters are recognized and usable by Raspbian without any configuration so I hoped that they would serve my purposes here as well, but neither have drivers pre-loaded in this case. How do I find the suitable drivers for my two adapters?

Plug in to a big Linux distribution (e.g. Raspbian) and read the log to note which driver is used.

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Thank you so much! Between checking the logs on a Debian machine and then comparing it to that table on Wikipedia, I got both adapters working!