TP-Link USB Wifi Dongle Driver (F40) does not show

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Hello,
I bought a TP-Link TL-WN821N(US) V6 USB Wifi Adaptor. I believe it has a Realtek RTL-8192eu chipset.

I plug in the adaptor and run
nmcli dev status
The device showed up on F39, and type is wifi. However connection was blank. Now I have upgraded to F40 and it does not show up at all (except lsusb).

I ensure
nmcli radio wifi on
but
nmcli dev wifi list
comes up blank.

I tried the Adaptor on my other F40 desktop box and it works.
The laptop it does not work on is a Lenovo Ideapad.

Thanks,
Matt

Edit: I upgraded from F39 to F40, and now I cannot get the adaptor to show up at all with nmcli dev status.
The adaptor does show up in lsusb.

When I run
nmcli radio
it returns
WIFI-HW ‘Missing’ (because i took out the original wifi hardware).
Can I set nmcli configuration to recognise the TP-Link USB Adaptor and make nmcli forget about the old missing hardware?

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Added f40 and removed f39

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Some wifi firmwares were splt into sub-packages for f40, and yours probably got dropped.

We have a documentation up on this for coreOS, it should be applicable to you : Enabling Wi-Fi :: Fedora Docs

realtek-firmware is probably the package you need.