MT7601 drivers installing

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Hi. Is there a way to install that river on osmc rc?
I’ve got TP-LINK TL-WN727N v4 with USB ID of 148f:7601. Tried many manuals on google, but no one works for me.
Can you help?

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RC2 (and updates for existing RC users) will be released soon which has completely reworked wireless drivers. So chances are good that your adaptor will be supported then.

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Good to hear that. But it will be very nice to have a way to use this adaptor here and now. And for case when chances will be bad :wink:

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raspberry pi 2 , if somebody need mt7601 driver for kernel 3.18.10, you can find it here

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Using Shareed2k’s instructions, I’ve built this for RC3 (3.18.13). It’s available here

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Please don’t install a specific kernel version. Instead, I will make sure to include it in the next release.

Sam

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I’m having problems getting the MT7601U to work, is there an ETA for the next release which will include a fix?
Thanks.

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I know sam has said not to install your own module (updates will break it) but here is a script to compile your own and install it, with proper configuration. If you suffer any repercussions from using this wifi driver, realise this is not a part of OSMC and therefore at the moment completely unsupported.

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@sam_nazarko in final release or RC4? I was just about to chuck these 2 USB adapters until I saw your post :smiley:

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I am also struggling to make my mediatek MT7601 chipset USB dongle, to work with Raspberry Pi 2, but had no success. I installed the OSMC RC3 and it did not work. Will there be a release soon to include this dongle? Thanks for the support.

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It is on my todo list

Sam

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MT7601 driver doesn’t appear to be in the July update, will it be in the August update?
I’ll be rolling back to the June release in the meantime.

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Also wondering about support for the MT7601. Bought an Edimax 7711MAC during “Prime Day” and can’t seem to get it working. Not a huge deal as I have a supported ‘N’ adapter but would like to get OSMC onto AC one of these days.

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I had the very same problem of a RALINK MT7601U (usb 148f:7601) not recognised anymore after an update from an old kernel (several years) to 2021 version.
The solution was as simple as:
Copy the bin file from:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/mt7601u.bin
to
/lib/firmware/
(with sudo, to get rights to write there)
Unplug and replug…
dmesg
will show proper installation.