Tutorial: Installation of Ralink/MediaTek MT7601 based USB Wifi modules on BeagleBone Black

[Roland Groeneveld]

We just published a tutorial for installation of the UWN100 an UWN200 Compact USB Wifi Adapters on the BeagleBone Black. These adapters are based on the relatively new Ralink/MediaTek MT7601 chipset, so drivers are not widely available yet. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing the drivers.

Tutorial: http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2013/07/22/usb-wifi-adapter-installation-beaglebone-black/

   

Roland Groeneveld

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[johanne...@gmail.com]

Are there similar instructions for ArchLinux? I'm attempting to apply your recipe there, it compiles fine, but insmod is failing with a "invalid module format" error.

[J]

Because those are not for Arch. Also I am sure there are for a much different Kernel than you are running ;) That was made on the Angstrom OS.

get his patches and then build a PKGBUILD for it, make your package and off you go.

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[Roland Groeneveld]

You can find a repo for Arch Linux here: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/tree/master/alarm/dkms-mt7601

See this for more details: http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5921&p=33939#p33939

Roland

[J]

even easier solution the PKGBUILD is already there for you :) But
doesn't that mean its being built already if its in their master tree or
available as a installable package?

[Johannes Ernst]

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:23:06 PM UTC-7, Roland Groeneveld wrote:

See this for more details: http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5921&p=33939#p33939

 According to this, it seems that the next official ArchLinux build for the BeagleBone should contain this then, and all I need is wait? Or am I misunderstanding this?

Thanks,


Johannes.

[danli...@gmail.com]

I like the form factor of this adaptor and I'm interested in trying it out with Ubuntu and Linaro, but I'm concerned about the mystery driver. Who develops it? What is the license? Is there a version control repo for it? Is it going to be in the mainline Linux tree any time soon?

[Roland Groeneveld]

The UWN100 and UWN200 adapters are based on the MediaTek MT7601 chipset. The drivers have recently been published on the MediaTek website. They are published under the GNU General Public License (as you'll see when you click on the download link).

[Dan Lipsitt]

Thanks. Any plans to get it into the upstream kernel?

[Dave Holden]

UWN200 works well for me.  Plug and play.  Thank you Jesus, what a pain in the ass it has been to get wifi on my BBB.    On the bright side I now have one of every wifi dongle ever made.  

I did this, I hope I don't really need the upgrade though since I'm trying to create a minimal build.

# opkg update

# opkg upgrade 

Now I have these drivers etc.:

ifconfig

ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:43:00:14:41 

          inet addr:10.0.1.23  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:43ff:fe00:1441/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:1333634 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:465 frame:465

          TX packets:1194015 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:185513558 (176.9 MiB)  TX bytes:1018927693 (971.7 MiB)

root@beaglebone:~# lsmod | grep 7601

mtnet7601Usta          25701  1

mt7601Usta            753921  1 mtnet7601Usta

mtutil7601Usta         65890  2 mt7601Usta,mtnet7601Usta

unique modules: 

mtnet7601Usta        

mtutil7601Usta         

mt7601Usta             

root@beaglebone:~# modinfo mtutil7601Usta

filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.13/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mtutil7601Usta.ko

license:        GPL

srcversion:     E14FD79D6D622DB12CC3F6D

depends:       

vermagic:       3.8.13 SMP mod_unload modversions ARMv7 thumb2 p2v8

root@beaglebone:~# modinfo mtnet7601Usta             

filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.13/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mtnet7601Usta.ko

license:        GPL

version:        3.0.0.3

description:    RT2870 Wireless Lan Linux Driver

author:         Paul Lin <paul...@ralinktech.com>

license:        GPL

srcversion:     B2652578024467A64684B82

alias:          usb:v148Fp7601d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*

alias:          usb:v148Fp6370d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*

alias:          usb:v148Fp7650d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*

depends:        mtutil7601Usta,mt7601Usta

vermagic:       3.8.13 SMP mod_unload modversions ARMv7 thumb2 p2v8

parm:           mac:rt28xx: wireless mac addr (charp)

root@beaglebone:~# modinfo mt7601Usta

filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.13/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mt7601Usta.ko

srcversion:     9EF4492CF4EB832D5955C16

depends:        mtutil7601Usta

vermagic:       3.8.13 SMP mod_unload modversions ARMv7 thumb2 p2v8 

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:21:56 AM UTC-7, Roland Groeneveld wrote: