Thank Andrew! i've been able to get stretch and bullseye to work with netgear wn111 both have installed other wifi adapter with non-freeware before but i can't get fresh install of buster to work buster has /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw i run ifup wlx... :
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1 Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/wlxe091f5061648/e0:91:f5:06:16:48 Sending on LPF/wlxe091f5061648/e0:91:f5:06:16:48 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlxe091f5061648 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on wlxe091f5061648 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on wlxe091f5061648 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 DHCPDISCOVER on wlxe091f5061648 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 DHCPDISCOVER on wlxe091f5061648 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.