Article 5MM13 Installed driver for Frontech USB FT-0828 Wi Fi Adapter in Fedora 33. Wifi enabled, but wifi connection not available. Help needed please.

Installed driver for Frontech USB FT-0828 Wi Fi Adapter in Fedora 33. Wifi enabled, but wifi connection not available. Help needed please.

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konark
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HI, I have installed driver for Frontech USB FT-0828 Adapter in Fedora 33. Wifi connection is enabled, but wifi is still unavailable. I have been trying to solve this problem for quite sometime, but without success. Appears I am leaving out some small thing in the process. Following is the output of some commands after installation.
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nmcli general status
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
connected full enabled enabled enabled enabled
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nmcli radio
WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
enabled enabled enabled enabled
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nmcli device wifi list
IN-USE BSSID SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY
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nmcli device wifi rescan
Error: Scanning not allowed while unavailable.

The status shows that the wifi is enabled, but wifi is unavailable as seen below.

nmcli device status
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp2s0 ethernet connected Wired connection 1
virbr0 bridge connected (externally) virbr0
wlp0s20f0u8 wifi unavailable --
lo loopback unmanaged --
virbr0-nic tun unmanaged --
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iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

enp2s0 no wireless extensions.

wlp0s20f0u8 unassociated ESSID:"" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

virbr0 no wireless extensions.

virbr0-nic no wireless extensions.
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ifconfig wlp0s20f0u8 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted

The operation is not permitted even though the command was executed as root user.
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nmcli -p -f general device show wlp0s20f0u8
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Device details (wlp0s20f0u8)
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GENERAL.DEVICE: wlp0s20f0u8
GENERAL.TYPE: wifi
GENERAL.NM-TYPE: NMDeviceWifi
GENERAL.DBUS-PATH: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3
GENERAL.VENDOR: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
GENERAL.PRODUCT: 802.11n
GENERAL.DRIVER: r8188eu
GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION: 5.13.4-100.fc33.x86_64
GENERAL.FIRMWARE-VERSION: --
GENERAL.HWADDR: 00:E0:4C:81:88:02
GENERAL.MTU: 1500
GENERAL.STATE: 20 (unavailable)
GENERAL.REASON: 2 (Device is now managed)
GENERAL.IP4-CONNECTIVITY: 1 (none)
GENERAL.IP6-CONNECTIVITY: 1 (none)
GENERAL.UDI: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/net/wlp0s20f0u8
GENERAL.PATH: pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:8:1.0
GENERAL.IP-IFACE: --
GENERAL.IS-SOFTWARE: no
GENERAL.NM-MANAGED: yes
GENERAL.AUTOCONNECT: yes
GENERAL.FIRMWARE-MISSING: no
GENERAL.NM-PLUGIN-MISSING: no
GENERAL.NM-PLUGIN-MISSING: no
GENERAL.PHYS-PORT-ID: --
GENERAL.CONNECTION: --
GENERAL.CON-UUID: --
GENERAL.CON-PATH: --
GENERAL.METERED: unknown

nmcli connection show
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
Wired connection 1 edb652c4-83fc-343f-b57e-79918b15f582 ethernet enp2s0
virbr0 fb455b20-af3c-4be9-882e-1d772a4d1a37 bridge virbr0

From above, it appears that the driver is installed and the usb dongle/adapter is being recognized, but the command lspci -k doesnot show any information about wireless connection, but only of wired network connection.
Can you please help me in sorting out this problem?
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