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I have been stuck with this issue now for couple of days.

I had seen many Q & A regarding same but I am confused and still not been able to make my usb wifi adapter working on ubuntu. (Same works with windows 7 partition )

I am able to make and make install the driver provided by manufactuter. even with modprobe I see my kernal module added. but output of lsmod shows that no process is using thins module.

Now issue is I am lost and cant head to any solution.

uname -a output:

4.2.0-42-generic #49~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 29 20:22:18 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

When I insert usb wifi adapter I get following in dmesg

rtusb init rt2870 ---> [ 1602.038165] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870 [ 1633.840109] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci [ 1633.983746] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=7601 [ 1633.983754] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 1633.983761] usb 2-1: Product: 802.11 n WLAN [ 1633.983765] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: MediaTek [ 1633.983769] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 1.0

Please guide

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  • Try a newer version of Ubuntu -- 16.04 LTS is more likely to have support for newer hardware,
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Nov 6, 2016 at 21:31
  • @DrMoishePippik thanks for advice but it is critical to ge this machine working with same Ubuntu version. Can you help?
    – anup kunte
    Commented Nov 6, 2016 at 23:46
  • Sorry, no; I've no experience with that hardware, but you might query the manufacturer.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Nov 7, 2016 at 0:32
  • Possibly answered here.
    – dirkt
    Commented Nov 7, 2016 at 21:02

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There's a ppa repo for this. I have tested it for RT2870 driver and it worked for me. Plug your USB adapter in and run the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thopiekar/mt7601 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mt7601-sta-dkms When the installation completes, click on the wi-fi network icon and you should see the USB adapter network interface you can also install wicd for wired and wireless network management.

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