sorry it was rtl8811au
The situation around Realtek wireless drivers, particularly USB wireless drivers, is an utter mess. Realtek pushes out new, slightly changed, wireless chipsets 2-3 times a year, each with their own vendor driver[0], which is subsequently forgotten about immediately, in favour of the next one - but doesn't follow up with upstreaming them at all[1]. For a while these drivers were accepted into staging, but after six drivers ended up there[2], rotting away without ever getting closer to being mainl…
but looks like those 3rd party driver doesn't support AP mode (host a wifi)
Annoyingly I bought this device as I read up and saw a report that TP-Link support Linux well. Think the RaspberryPi (which is what I have opeen-wrt installed on) use Broadcom chipsets so the wifi shows up no problem.
Might unfortunately have a surplus wifi device
Geoff
