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    JL604 reacted to kutysam in Orange Pi Zero /4.11.0-sun8i/ wlan0 is gone   
    For those whom want 4.10 LAST nightly for OPIZero where xr819 wifi is working, the link is here.
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8aNiHBlMQ9cbnpaUHJMa2pyWUk/view?usp=sharing
    I never deleted this thankfully. 
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    JL604 reacted to devman in Orange Pi Zero /4.11.0-sun8i/ wlan0 is gone   
    Sadly, I got bitten by this too.  It was serving pretty decently as a little CUPS server mounted to the back of my printer.
     
    I can understand why they dropped it, but it was perfect for my personal use case. 
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    JL604 reacted to ldiaz in Orange Pi Zero /4.11.0-sun8i/ wlan0 is gone   
    I understand Reading this thread that the driver can’t be compiled in 4.11 according to @martinayotte. However, @fifteenhex claims that it is working with the patch.
    Could you clarify what is the status? I understand the decision to exclude the driver from the default build but I think it would be great to make it work as an option for custom builds. It could be a crapy driver as you all comment. But i
    For those, like me, that use custom builds what is the last commit of the build tool that still use 4.10? I tried to find any tag in the master branch but I was unable to find it.
     
    Thanks,
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    JL604 reacted to sanja in [SOLVED] Orange PI PC and $2 Ralink MT7601U dongle (USB ID 148f:7601)   
    It took me some time to figure how to make it work, so I decided to save it for some poor soul who would need it in future. (I am a Windows guy so this stuff is a bit alien for me).
     
    I bought <$2 WiFi dongle for my new Orange PI PC from here: http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/7899695282.html?orderId=76846564349160
     

     
    I am running latest "ARMBIAN jessie 3.4.112-sun8i". The chip was detected by the OS but didn't work: lsusb gave me this:
    Bus 004 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. I tried several solutions:
     
    installing "firmware-ralink" package, compiling various sources and getting "loboris kernel" using code from this git: https://github.com/porjo/mt7601.git ...and many others to no avail. Here is how to make it work. 
     
    Plug your Orange PI PC into LAN. Open terminal (or SSH) with root access. 
     
    First, make sure that all packages on your board are up-to-date and install few additional ones (not sure if it is necessary, though, but it won't hurt):
    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get autoremove apt-get -y install update-usbids  linux-headers-sun8i  build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev Download the driver to your Orange PI from the official MediaTek site (http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/) using this command: 
    wget http://cdn-cw.mediatek.com/Downloads/linux/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913.tar.bz2 Unpack it with command:  
    tar -jxvf DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913.tar.bz2 cd DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913/ Some recipes suggest editing the file "os/linux/config.mk" in the source of the driver, but it looks like MediaTek have made the necessary changes already.
     
    Run commands and grab some coffee while it compiles. 
    make make install Then run 
    modprobe mt7601Usta Reboot. Make sure that the command: 
    iwconfig now displays new network interface:
    lo        no wireless extensions. tunl0     no wireless extensions. ra0       Ralink STA eth0      no wireless extensions. and running 
    lsmod  outputs the mention of "mt7601Usta". 
     
    Now you can connect your Orange PI to WiFi network.  Run
    wpa_passphrase NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFINETWORK YOUR_WIFI_PASSWORD and save the generated passphrase (long string of numbers and characters that will look like this: "ebb09a6794c2500d74e433b9de4da493c......").
     
    Make sure that neither your WiFi network's name or password contain characters which Linux bash considers "special". My password contained exclamation point, which is, and determining the cause of the problem was quite tricky. I had to "escape" it by prefixing it with backslash, like this:
    password! => password\! Edit file "/etc/network/interfaces":
    editor /etc/network/interfaces Unlike it is said in many manulas, your newly created interface will not be called "wlan0". Its name in your (our) case will be "ra0".
     
    Add these lines on top of "/etc/network/interfaces" file:
    auto ra0         allow-hotplug ra0         iface ra0 inet dhcp         wpa-ssid NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFINETWORK         wpa-psk LONG_STRING_OF_CHARS_AND_NUMBERS_YOU_WROTE_DOWN_EARLIER Save the file by pressing Strl+S followed by "Y" and Ctrl+X.
     
    Activate WiFi by running: 
    ifup ra0 You wll get something like this as an output:
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1 Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/ra0/00:36:76:22:b1:59 Sending on LPF/ra0/00:36:76:22:b1:59 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPREQUEST on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.100.1 DHCPACK from 192.168.100.1 bound to 192.168.100.209 -- renewal in 11858 seconds. If you'd run:
    ifconfig -a you will see that both wired and wireless links work simultaneously:
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ba:ab:c9:ac:7e:9a           inet addr:192.168.100.206  Bcast:192.168.100.255  Mask:255.255.255.0           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1           RX packets:1983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0           TX packets:1764 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000           RX bytes:170565 (166.5 KiB)  TX bytes:294641 (287.7 KiB)           Interrupt:114 lo        Link encap:Local Loopback           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0           RX bytes:0 (0.0  TX bytes:0 (0.0 ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:36:76:22:b1:59           inet addr:192.168.100.209  Bcast:192.168.100.255  Mask:255.255.255.0           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1           RX packets:3283 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0           TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000           RX bytes:841424 (821.7 KiB)  TX bytes:3420 (3.3 KiB) tunl0     Link encap:IPIP Tunnel  HWaddr           NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0           RX bytes:0 (0.0  TX bytes:0 (0.0 Now you can unplug LAN cable and reconnect your SSH to an IP address that belongs to the WiFi link you have just created.  
     
    Additionally you can remove all IPv6 functionality if your home network doesn't use it. Edit the file "/etc/sysctl.conf" and add the following lines to the bottom of it:
    net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 Once you reboot your Orange PI, you won't see any mentions of IPv6 addresses in the output of "ifconfig -a" command. 
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