Help with usb 2 dongle converter to 10/100 ethernet

Hello,

I bought the following device from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB ... B00M77HLII

People mention getting it to work on various distro's including Ubuntu(Debian) so I figured it would also work on Zorin. I'm having issues getting the thing to be recognized and was wondering if anyone can help me out?

Upon plugging the thing it I get a white error bubble message along the top edge saying...
"Connection Failed"
"Activation of network connection failed"

Upon entering in $ ip addr
I see it shows up as...

2: wlo1: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
[tabbed space here] link/ether 00.50:b6:27:8f:b5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:f:ff:ff
[tabbed space here] inet6 fe80::3145:edb8:6793:13fe/64 scope link tentative
[tabbed mooaarrr space here] valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever




Thanks in advance,

Dave(the)GNUoob

The page you gave the link to clearly states it is compatible with that other OS - no mention of GNU/Linux. You really need one of the ones from think penguin at $46.

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wi ... g-gnulinux