The Mint 20.2 Driver Manager runs a scan when you start it up and reports no drivers are needed. The system does not even know that there are 2 USB network adapters plugged in. I also tried Fedora (buggy) and Neon user (which offered more options) and Xubutu XFCE, plus fossapup64-9.5 - which actually is the most user-helpful - but still no configuration.
Now there are plenty of solutions that involve sudo apt update, but that itself requires a Internet connection and depends upon which basic flavor of Linux one is using, and which I could enable such as by bring the box to another room and trying each solution. However, there should be a simple single executable file (no complicating compiling) that works, that I could put on a USB and point Linux to - if it even would automatically detect the adapter. At least if Linux is to be promoted as "desktop ready."
Let me wrap my head around the exact situation here... There is not a packaged .tar driver file you can download to your windows computer and then transfer over and extract it in the proper place in the Linux computer?