I got one of these Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U) | The Pi Hut to hopefully get better wifi performance, as I’m occasionally seeing hiccups with the Pi built in wifi. When I plug it in, I can see in dmesg that it’s recognized as a USB device (and a storage device, as it appears to provide a small volume with Windows drivers), but I don’t see how to configure OSMC to use it as a network interface. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I dont know if we have any support for MT7612U chipsets at this time. A log would confirm if there’s a match on the VID/PID and a module is loaded
You would also want to disable the internal WiFi adapter.
The internal adapter should be adequate for playback on newer Pis. As you don’t specify which model of Pi you have and in turn the version of OSMC you are running it’s hard to advise
Good point, that was a pretty lackluster question on details. Let me try again…
It’s a Pi 4 on OSMC 2024.10-1. The Pi is in an aluminum case, which helps with heat management, but is of course pretty bad for wifi, and unfortunately the Ethernet cable to that location was damaged during construction, so I’m stuck with wifi. Local speed tests show I’m getting about 70Mbit over wifi, which should be enough for smooth playback, but apparently is not, as I do get stuck buffering for a while now and then.
dmesg when plugging it in:
[138514.592738] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[138514.693712] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=2870, bcdDevice= 0.01
[138514.693731] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[138514.693737] usb 1-1.2: Product: Љ
[138514.693743] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Љ
[138514.693748] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: Љ
[138514.695749] usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[138514.696181] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0
[138515.705409] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM MediaTek Flash autorun 0.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[138515.716119] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[138515.724247] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[138515.724272] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[138515.727328] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[138518.408838] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[138518.413830] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
Is there another log you’d like to see? /usr/lib/modules/5.15.92-1-osmc/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2/mt76x2u.ko exists but it doesn’t appear to have been loaded (per lsmod).
Doesn’t appear to be supported. Probably will be in the next kernel.
I see. Any idea what the timeline is for that?
Not at this time.