Noob needing help with raspberry pi 1 wifi dongle

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A neighbour gave me his old raspberry pi 1? With it he gave me a TPlink wifi dongle as I am told the older ones didn’t have onboard wifi. I have written sd card with the legacy lite OS. But I think I am now overwhelmed with the backdoor command prompt nonsense in what multiple help sites suggest to get this to recognize and connect to my home wifi. When writing the OS pi writer knew my wifi credentials but did NOTHING with them. I have lofty goals of making this a webcam or wifi camera source for streaming but if I cant get the thing to connect to wifi when my vacuum can then I may as well send this back to my neighbour.

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