Force the r8712u driver (for RTL8192SU) with the RTL8192S VID/PID. It is not perfect (LEDs act weird, no 40 MHz channels), but it works.
The RTL8192S driver serves as a case study in legacy hardware support. Originally, Realtek provided a vendor driver that was not compliant with the Linux kernel coding style. Over time, developers from the Linux community (notably Larry Finger and the rtlwifi team) rewrote the driver to fit the mac80211 stack. rtl8192s wlan adapter driver work
sudo apt install git dkms build-essential git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8192su.git cd rtl8192su make sudo make install sudo modprobe 8192su Force the r8712u driver (for RTL8192SU) with the