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I just bought a USB wi-fi dongle using the MediaTek MT7610U (RT2860) chipset, and the drivers from their website: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/mt7610u-usb/ won't compile, with this error

ktweed@PC-BL100TA ~/Desktop/drivers $ make make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ktweed/Desktop/drivers/tools' gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ktweed/Desktop/drivers/tools' /home/ktweed/Desktop/drivers/tools/bin2h chipset = mt7650u chipset = mt7630u chipset = mt7610u cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/ktweed/Desktop/drivers/os/linux/Makefile make -C /lib/modules/3.2.0-89-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/ktweed/Desktop/drivers/os/linux modules make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/3.2.0-89-generic/build' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/3.2.0-89-generic/build' make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

I tried using files modified according to this site, with the same error:
http://earthwithsun.com/questions/738096/how-to-install-mediatek-mt7610u-rt2860-driver

LSUSB output

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0408:13fd Quanta Computer, Inc. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp.

The Ralink one is the USB Wifi.

ifconfig output:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:5e:ed:d3:4e UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:42 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:5538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:609333 (609.3 KB) TX bytes:609333 (609.3 KB)

I'm running linux mint 13 XFCE 32-bit. I've tried everything, and nothing works. If anyone could help, that would be great. Thanks!

Edit: The CD that came with the USB Wifi has drivers for a realtek 8188CUS, and those don't work either. Does this help?

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  • I also tried this on a Raspberry Pi 2 and a Lenovo Thinkpad W700 with Ubuntu 15.04. Neither worked. Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 19:48
  • Try this, works perfectly fine for me for MT7610U (LTERIVER, JOIOT AC600) github.com/xtknight/mt7610u-linksys-ae6000-wifi-fixes Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 8:29

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From lsusb output, 148f:7601, it should be a MT7601U chip not MT7610U. Please node, Mediatek official site seem swap the link between them, but I'm not very sure about this.

I believe some guys have made good progress on MT7601U, refer to https://github.com/kuba-moo/mt7601u

You can see, that driver are committed to 4.2 kernel.

I have a MT7610U usb adapter, I'm very sure I cannot use MT7601U driver, after I've tried so many drivers. My adapter lsusb output:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc.

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  • Thanks! I tried googling that, and I found this:code.launchpad.net/~thopiekar/+archive/ubuntu/mt7601 It worked, although I did switch to Lubuntu 15.04 for it to work. Thanks for the help! Commented Aug 20, 2015 at 3:11
  • I'm glad to see you've found the solution by yourself. :) Commented Aug 20, 2015 at 4:19
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Give a shot on kernel 4.19 or above. This version should work smoothly because there is native support for mt7610u.

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