Realtek 8188GU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB NIC is a compact network interface controller (NIC) designed to add Wi-Fi connectivity to computers via a USB port. It is typically found in small USB "dongles" and uses the 802.11n standard to provide wireless speeds up to on the 2.4GHz frequency band. Key Technical Specifications
He opened the USB tree viewer. The hardware IDs revealed a string: USB\VID_0BDA&PID_818GU . He typed it into a search engine and fell down the rabbit hole. realtek 8188gu wireless lan 802.11n usb nic driver
Use the Realtek 8812AU driver suite, but manually edit the .inf file. Change ‘USB\VID_0BDA&PID_8812AU’ to ‘USB\VID_0BDA&PID_8188GU’. Then disable driver signature enforcement. Realtek 8188GU Wireless LAN 802