usb stick wifi support

[dtaht]

Two common wifi usb sticks are not currently supported in the 3.14 kernel on the c2, they show as:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter Bus 001 Device 003: ID 7392:a812 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd

They are sold as:

http://www.amazon.com/Panda-300Mbps-Wireless-USB-Adapter/dp/B00EQT0YK2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY/ref=pd_sim_147_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=31ChKj3dl7L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0JPRQ7NTSWR4ZVDJAGY7

Additionally: If there is a 802.11ac wifi stick you folks sell or can recommend that would be great.

[mdrjr]

Hello,

MediaTek MT7610U doesn't have upstream support IIRC. I'm on 4.4 x86 and it doesn't have the support here, I actually tested some mediatek dongles but their driver is on a very poor state and even the dongle doesn't perform as it should, performance is very sub-par doesn't even get 100mbit/s.

As for the Realtek based one, its based on RTL8811AU I wasn't aware of that specific chip until you posted this issue.

At this moment the only 802.11ac chip I can support is the RTL8812AU (DualBand 802.11ac) I have one to test and it works very well.

[dtaht]

We (savewifi.org and cerowrt.org) are working on improving matters for various wifi stick support in various kernels. Notably we have some hope of getting the openwrt work on the mt76 chip more polished.

I can confirm that everything listed with linux support from "panda" is working on the rpi's 4.4 kernel at this point and can generate a list. "working" does not mean "works well", means - doesn't crash, as yet.

[dtaht]

I look forward to hacking on a more modern kernel on the c1 and c2. Is there a branch I could pull from?

[dtaht]

do you have an amazon link for a product that uses the RTL8812AU? (or do you sell it yourselves?)

[k-plan]

Hi,

do you have an amazon link for a product that uses the RTL8812AU

ALFA AWUS036EAC

• amazon link
• manufacturer
• some more informations for linux and links

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
. . .
[   56.252986] RTL871X: rtl8812au v4.2.5_10143.20140103_ASUS
[   56.253042] RTL871X: build time: Mar 13 2016 16:04:38
[   56.664924] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8812au

[BKPepe]

Hello,

do you have an amazon link for a product that uses the RTL8812AU? (or do you sell it yourselves?)

Comfast CF-912AC

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter

[mdrjr]

Hello,

Be specific what's your dongle.. Chip, USB VID/PID.