It didn't work with Debian 8.8 and sources wouldn't compile etc so i went ahead and installed debian 9.0.1 from the non-free gnome live cd which included the necessary drivers to get the card to be recognized.
Wireless networks were detected but it couldnt connect to any of them.
I remembered this fix i had to do for ubuntu testing on the same machine with a different card that i did not have do do for debian 8.8. SO.... i tried it and it works.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/902992/ ... 019#905019
The odd thing is that it was not required for debian 8.8, but the wifi adapter does so there is an improvement.
long story short,
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sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
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[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
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sudo service network-manager restart