Need help with USB wifi

I bought today a usb wireless device but I’m unable to locate it’s driver.
When I bought it I asked the vendor will it compatible with Linux he said “Yes” but there is no driver for linux in the little CD

I found the same problem on ubuntu with same model and it seem to have solved
same model LB-LINK BL-WN151

But it’s not working for me cus the github link is deleted

P.S I wasn’t wearing glasses and believed him. I think I made the mistake

If it is really this chipset: https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:148f-7601 (as on the page mentioned)

Then it is officially supported and baked into the kernel: linux/usb.c at master · torvalds/linux · GitHub

Please post the output of this command for clarification:

inxi --network --admin --filter --width 80
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inxi --network --admin --filter --width 80
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet vendor: Lenovo driver: alx 
  v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1090 class-ID: 0200 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter 
  driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A modules: bcma port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  chip-ID: 14e4:4727 class-ID: 0280 
  Device-3: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: mt7601u 
  bus-ID: 1-1.2:6 chip-ID: 148f:7601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>

Hi, @megavolt Thanks for this but what’s this code here ? Just so you know I don’t have any programming background , If this is the solution , could you please instruct me how to do it? Thank you so much for your post.

UPDATE:
I just reboot the system and now it’s working but now I’m just little confuse Do I have to remove the internal wireless driver so that they both don’t clash ? If so how can I do it? Because it’s not showing anymore by giving the same command

inxi --network --admin --filter --width 80
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet vendor: Lenovo driver: alx 
  v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1090 class-ID: 0200 
  Device-2: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: mt7601u 
  bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 chip-ID: 148f:7601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>

The code is just the source which is already compiled in the kernel. Just a prove that the driver is there.

I see you have a internal wifi device… Have a look at this article: Broadcom wireless - ArchWiki

sudo mhwd -i pci network-broadcom-wl

But to exclude drivers, you just need to blacklist drivers… also explained on the wiki.

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Thank you so much

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