Missing firmware after fresh installation

[tookdrums]

I can confirm I had the same problem. Suddenly my dongle wasn't recognized anymore.
But rebuilding the driver manually made it work...
I used
https://www.max2play.com/en/forums/topic/howto-raspberry-pi-3-realtek-802-11ac-rtl8812au/

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Another Idea would be to have your website xbian.org Brave publisher verified so people can easily tip you BAT.