@nbi1 Having researched this further it turns out this is an old problem dating all the way back to 2014. For this problem to have festered for 8 years while tp-link markets these adapters as linux...

@nbi1 Here's the complete dmesg output. This driver appears to be buggy. As this is for kernel 5.18 I have to assume it's the most current. [ 38.383020] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3...

In /var/log/messages I see: usbcore: registered new interface driver ax88179_178a But the interface (eth0 or eth1) will not come up - "no such device". Supposedly this adapter works out of the box...