Can't connect wifi dongle to rpi 3b v1.2 for repeater project

Hello, I've been following this guide: https://hackaday.io/project/171296-truly-wifi-extender to turn my pi into a wifi repeater for a small project. However, after following all the steps i noticed that my usb dongle won't even connect to anything when it's plugged into my pi. Only my pi is connected to my home network, so i can't test if the project works. The pi recognizes that the dongle is plugged in when i type lsusb in the command line and the dongle does work when i plug into my laptop. Any help is appreciated.