wlan0 interface is missing

I am trying to get WIFI access on my DE10 nano board which is running debian buster. The kernel version is 5.12.0zImage. In order to get the wifi to work I have followed the tutorial located in this link:

https://github.com/frank2597/de10-na...ing-up-Wifi.md

I am also using the same wifi adapter in the tutorial which is the RT5370 chipset. However despite doing everything the tutorial state the wlan0 device is still not visible. The command ifconfig -a returns:

Code:eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::4c0:3fff:fe00:d85f prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 06:c0:3f:00:d8:5f txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 327 bytes 62203 (60.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1079 bytes 339387 (331.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 39 base 0x8000

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

sit0: flags=128<NOARP> mtu 1480
sit txqueuelen 1000 (IPv6-in-IPv4)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
I can also see my wifi device with the command lsusb :

Code:Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network AdapterI have tried to install the package firmware-iwlwifi since i saw in another post that this would fix the "missing wlan0" issue but this did not work for me. Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this issue? If you need any other info let me know, Thanks