please help install wifi dongle chipset mt7601

(Last edited by saimonyz on 31 Jan 2016, 16:58)

A friend gave us this Portable 360 Wifi 3 Wi-fi Router and the lsusb output is as shown below indicating it is an Mediatek MT7601 USBNet chipset (similar to yours). This hardware requires the kmod-mt7601u module.

[debian@debian:/opt/openwrt-git-trunk 756%] ~ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 085: ID 148f:760b Ralink Technology, Corp. 
[debian@debian:/opt/openwrt-git-trunk 757%] ~

where to download kmod-mt7601u

root@GL-AR150:~# opkg install kmod-mt7601u
Unknown package 'kmod-mt7601u'.
Collected errors:
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-mt7601u.

Please read this packages documentation.

still I can not find please link

The link does NOT directly tell you where the package can be downloaded from, AFAICT. However, it (vaguely) explains how OpenWRT packages are structured. In order to download a binary package, you will need to know what platform/release for the binary package. Once you have those information, then peruse the link to find out how to proceed to download package per instruction on the link.

Sorry about necrobumping like this, but are those 7601 dongles (often called "360 WiFi" on ebay and the likes) full standalone capable routers (or would be with OpenWRT) like the venerable A5-V11 and clones?

Can anybody tell me how to make this dongle work in OpenWrt? I tried everything.
I compiled a firmware based on OpenWrt GCC 5.3.0 r49395 with both kmod-mt7601u and mt7601u-firmware. This is the relevant part of dmesg:

[   14.440761] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[   14.580512] mt7601u 1-1:1.0: ASIC revision: 76010001 MAC revision: 76010500
[   14.644006] mt7601u 1-1:1.0: Warning: unsupported EEPROM version 0d
[   14.650474] mt7601u 1-1:1.0: EEPROM ver:0d fae:00
[   14.913514] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[   14.916615] usbcore: registered new interface driver mt7601u

I tried both client and access point mode. What is wrong?

I forgot to mention that it scans for wireless networks perfectly so the hardware is not broken.
It is unable to join any of these networks even if I enter its password. Any idea?

(Last edited by suso on 1 Dec 2016, 18:16)

I still haven't got this dongle working in OpenWrt. Anybody has?

Have you tested it fully on a desktop or laptop? Those little square dongles are terrible for hardware problems.  A lot are DOA or die within a short time of use.

I've used it with a Raspberry Pi. I had to install a modified hostapd if I remember well. Therefore I was looking for a modified hostapd in OpenWrt but didn't find it.

I can try again with Raspberry Pi but in OpenWrt it finds wireless networks perfectly during scanning. It wouldn't if the hardware was broken, would it?

It may not be transmitting.  Scans will show up from only the receiver.

Unless they're making them better now, I have bought about 6 of these (because they're cheap!) and more than half were duds.  Mostly they would not register on the USB bus at all but there were other problems too.

(Last edited by mk24 on 2 Dec 2016, 01:45)

Mine is still working, i.e. sending and receiving, with Raspberry Pi and it still doesn't work with openwrt. Must be a config issue but I can't work it out.

Any news of support in Raspberry Pi in trunk version???

when I set command iw interface info

I got the follow output:
Supported interface modes:
                 * managed
                 * monitor
Please any solution I need the AP mode.

Regards