Issue with getting wlan0 interface to work

I am trying to get WIFI access on my DE10 nano board which is running debian buster. The kernel version is 5.10.50-lts. The wifi device i am using is the RT5370 chipset. The issue is that the wlan0 device is not visible with 'ifconfig -a'. The output is shown below:

Code:ifconfig -a
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::4043:34ff:fe2e:f5bb prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 42:43:34:2e:f5:bb txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 168 bytes 22755 (22.2 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 247 bytes 64167 (62.6 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 39 base 0xa000

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
The kernel module that is of interest is rt2800usb and is loaded in. the command 'lsmod' is shown below:

Code:Module Size Used by
rt2800usb 28672 0
rt2800lib 110592 1 rt2800usb
crc_ccitt 16384 1 rt2800lib
rt2x00usb 20480 1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib 49152 3 rt2800lib,rt2800usb,rt2x00usb
rtl8188ee 106496 0
rtl_pci 32768 1 rtl8188ee
rtlwifi 94208 2 rtl_pci,rtl8188ee
mac80211 626688 6 rt2800lib,rtl_pci,rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rtl8188ee,rtlwifi
libarc4 16384 1 mac80211
cfg80211 602112 3 rt2x00lib,mac80211,rtlwifi
I can see that my usb wifi device is indeed plugged in with the command 'lsusb', the output is shown below:
Code:Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubIn the directory /lib/firmware i have installed various iwlwifi firmware.

The command 'lshw -c network' results in:
Code: *-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: eth0
serial: 42:43:34:2e:f5:bb
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=st_gmac driverversion=Jan_2016 duplex=full link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/sThe command 'lspci' does not return any result.

The command 'rfkill list' returns:
Code:rfkill: cannot open /dev/rfkill: No such file or directory
rfkill: cannot read /dev/rfkill: Bad file descriptor
The command 'iwconfig' returns:
Code:lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.The command 'ifconfig wlan0 up' returns:
Code:wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such deviceFrom 'dmesg' i found a section that might be of interest:
Code:[ 262.173356] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
[ 262.204790] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
[ 262.330974] cfg80211: loaded regulatory.db is malformed or signature is missing/invalid
[ 309.244598] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usbCan anyone help me resolve this issue? If any other info is needed let me know. Thanks