{"id":2595,"date":"2015-04-12T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2015-04-12T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T06:54:10","slug":"cheap-2-wifi-adapter-to-work-on-raspberry-pi-mt7601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2015\/cheap-2-wifi-adapter-to-work-on-raspberry-pi-mt7601\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap $2 WiFi adapter to work on Raspberry Pi (mt7601)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CameraZOOM-201504120919033736.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2606 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CameraZOOM-201504120919033736-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Raspberry Pi mt7601 WiFi\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CameraZOOM-201504120919033736-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CameraZOOM-201504120919033736-1008x1024.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CameraZOOM-201504120919033736.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHad this WiFi adapter since more than 9 months. Raspbian couldn&#8217;t recognize it. Further reading shows that the driver is not included in the kernel and might never be too.<\/p>\n<p>I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/porjo\/mt7601\" target=\"_blank\">this project<\/a> on Github but again, could <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/porjo\/mt7601\/issues\/22#issuecomment-91827897\" target=\"_blank\">not get it to compile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Googling more, came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=28&amp;t=104923&amp;p=734210&amp;hilit=mt7601#p734210%20\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>. Running the code below solved it \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n$ wget https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/80256631\/mt7601-3.18.7-755.tar.gz<br \/>\n$ tar xzf mt7601-3.18.7-755.tar.gz<br \/>\n$ .\/install.sh<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now I can complete my project about controlling a toy car by a phone&#8217;s\u00a0gyroscope\u00a0using <a href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2014\/control-raspberry-pis-gpio-with-rest-qt-webiopi\/\" target=\"_blank\">REST API<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had this WiFi adapter since more than 9 months. Raspbian couldn&#8217;t recognize it. Further reading shows that the driver is not included in the kernel and might never be too. I came across this project on Github but again, could not get it to compile. Googling more, came across this post. Running the code below &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2015\/cheap-2-wifi-adapter-to-work-on-raspberry-pi-mt7601\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheap $2 WiFi adapter to work on Raspberry Pi (mt7601)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[177,61,167],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}