Edup Wifi driver 8821cu won't work after reboot. I need to unplug and plug the Wifi back in

I am using Edup Wifi adapter model number AC1661 on Ubuntu 20.04 with a kernel version 5.11.0.41 . I followed the instructions to download and install the driver from this link. The driver works when I do a fresh physical plug in of the adapter. I am able to connect to the network. But once I restart the system. It won't connect to the network at all.

Here is the result of lsusb

blue@blue:~$ lsusb 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 14e1:3508 Dialogue Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:c820 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
blue@blue:~$ 

result of ifconfig

blue@blue:/etc/network$ ifconfig 
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:07:32:83:6c:fa  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 3729  bytes 265981 (265.9 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 3729  bytes 265981 (265.9 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether e8:4e:06:96:e3:5f  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

result of lsmod

blue@blue:~$ lsmod | grep 8821cu
8821cu               2207744  0
cfg80211              888832  1 8821cu
blue@blue:~$ 

There are some duplicates for this issue but none of them provide an solution. Some of the tickets suggest changing the grub file. I did that

blue@blue:/etc/default$ sudo cat grub
[sudo] password for blue: 
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash usbcore.autosuspend=-1 intel_idle.max_cstate=1 net.ifnames=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

I have also created a .link file

blue@blue:/etc/network$ cat 10-wlan0.link 
[Match]
MACAddress=e8:4e:06:96:e3:5f

[Link]
Name=wlan0

Here are the logs for networkManager when its not getting connected And logs for when I am able to connect to wifi

Any Idea why this could be happening and how do I resolve this?