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kuba-moo / mt7601u

Linux mac80211-based driver for Mediatek MT7601U USB bgn WiFi dongle
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Driver/Firmware Broken in newers Kernels #66

Closed romeumellobr closed 7 years ago

romeumellobr commented 7 years ago

Hi Friends, I tried to compile this driver in all well known distros (Mint, Debian, Ubuntu and Manjaro), in all of them I've got "Makefile:288 recipe for target 'LINUX' failed.

I can't get MT7601u work in this newer version, so I have a lof of these adapters, I can't give up on them.

Thank you!

kuba-moo commented 7 years ago

As state in the README file, you don't need to compile the driver separately if your kernel version (as reported by uname -r) is 4.2 or newer. This exact driver is included in the kernel.

romeumellobr commented 7 years ago

Thank you but does not work in 4.4+ kernels, I've tried all of them. Include Fedora now. So is broken. I'm trying to get some help from their foruns, but I will try to install in an older vesion.

kuba-moo commented 7 years ago

Do you see anything of note in the kernel logs when you plug the device in?

jeremyb31 commented 7 years ago

There are some dmesg errors posted at https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=247811&p=1331530#p1331394

romeumellobr commented 7 years ago

Here the Kernel logs: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=247811&p=1331547#p1331547

kuba-moo commented 7 years ago

What kind of dongle is that? Could you post a link to where you bought them or a photo?

romeumellobr commented 7 years ago

It's like this: https://va3paw.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/7601.jpg

kuba-moo commented 7 years ago

OK, so it's one of those $2-3 ones :) I think this is a duplicated of bug #64. It appears that whoever is making those cheap dongles have released a new revision which doesn't work well with this driver. You can try the workaround mentioned in bug #64 or wait until I get my hand on one of those dongles (delivery from China takes a bit...). It's not related to the kernel version, then.

vcsasha commented 5 years ago

It's worked for my situation too: "I think I have a solution (it has worked for me!). As root, run: ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link This will prevent systemd to create the long network interfaces names. It seems some firmwares don't play well with them. You must unplug-plug the USB dongle (or restart of it is internal). This has worked for me."