MT7601U USB Wi-Fi adapter not working on Raspberry Pi Zero, LibreELEC 9.2.1

Hello all and thanks for all the hard work on LibreELEC.

I'm trying to connect a no-name small black and red USB Wi-Fi adapter to a Raspberry Pi Zero. According to lsusb it is

ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter

I'm running LibreELEC 9.2.1.

uname -a


Linux LibreELEC 4.19.106 #1 Tue Mar 3 15:41:09 EST 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux

Relevant (I hope) output of dmesg; I've removed duplicate lines:

[   20.401166] mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: ASIC revision: 76010001 MAC revision: 76010500
[   20.472138] mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: Firmware Version: 0.1.00 Build: 7640 Build time: 201302052146____
[   20.893581] mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: EEPROM ver:0d fae:00
[   21.116392] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[   21.128703] usbcore: registered new interface driver mt7601u
[   21.828956] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  181.352944] mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: rx urb failed: -71
[  274.858021] mt7601u 1-1.1:1.0: Vendor request req:07 off:101c failed:-71
[  274.858044] mt7601u 1-1.1:1.0: Error: BBP read 2f failed:-110!!
[  275.685319] usb 1-1-port2: cannot reset (err = -71)
[  275.686414] usb 1-1-port2: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
[  275.686600] usb 1-1-port2: cannot disable (err = -71)
[  275.696854] hub 1-1:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
[  282.184694] usb 1-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[  282.194853] mt7601u 1-1.1:1.0: Error: BBP read 2f failed:-110!!

I've got it connected to a USB hub connected directly to the Raspberry Pi Zero. It's not a powered hub, however connecting other USB Wi-Fi adapters (ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]) works without problem. I tried connecting it with just a cable (no hub), and it doesn't work either (but the other adapter does).

It works on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspbian without problem, which is on an older kernel version.

I'm unsure if the problem is in LibreELEC's kernel support, my USB hub (possible although other USB Wi-Fi adapters work fine), or the USB Wi-Fi adapter itself.

Any help appreciated.

I flashed LibreELEC-RPi.arm-9.80-nightly-20200628-d1e3bf7.img.gz and it works fine now chewitt. Thank you so much!

For reference:

uname -a
Linux LibreELEC 5.4.45 #1 Sun Jun 28 07:27:04 CEST 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux

I hope the newer kernel version makes it to the next stable release of LibreELEC

Great. Just out of interest I had a look to see if I could see anything obvious that fixed it from the Linux kernel's git commit log but couldn't find anything.

This is a bit off topic now but I've noticed setting smartredraw in advancedsettings now "freezes" the screen (and killing the kodi process takes a while when it's like this). I've changed nothing else in my advanced settings.