adapt kmonsoor install-wifi

dolphs · June 4, 2017 at 4:45 PM

Hi - There are many folks around here that try to install their WiFi dongle with libreelec.

As / is READ ONLY I like to find out if that can be temporary RW, also to run " install-wifi.sh " so my Mediatek dongle will work.

Alternatively I upgrade raspbian to 4.9 kernel and copy the modules created apart.

still I need to be able to modprobe these drivers, so it will work in libreelec eventually.

Why on earth things are so closed in LIBREelec?

**DaVu** · June 5, 2017 at 12:51 AM Official Post

which dongle is it exaclty?

Quote from dolphs

Why on earth things are so closed in LIBREelec?

Because it's done like that by design. LibreELEC is for the user who don't want to fiddle around with the command line much, isn't Linux savvy and want things "just work". There are many supported wifi dongles around which are known working. Probably yours is also supported and it just needs some tweaks. So best would be to share more informations about that Mediatek dongle.

dolphs · June 5, 2017 at 4:24 AM

DaVu - thanks for your response.

Please find below verbose output of " lsusb "

Still it would be most convenient to adapt the install wifi script.

most likely needs a few mods before it works in libreelec.

Please have a look at this URL @github

cheers

Code

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc.
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.01
  bDeviceClass            0
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x0e8d MediaTek Inc.
  idProduct          0x7610
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           1 MediaTek
  iProduct                2 WiFi
  iSerial                 3 1.0
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           74
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0
    bmAttributes         0xa0
      (Bus Powered)
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower              160mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           8
      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class
      bInterfaceSubClass      2
      bInterfaceProtocol    255
      iInterface              0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x84  EP 4 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x85  EP 5 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x08  EP 8 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x04  EP 4 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x05  EP 5 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x06  EP 6 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x07  EP 7 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x09  EP 9 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
Binary Object Store Descriptor:
  bLength                 5
  bDescriptorType        15
  wTotalLength           12
  bNumDeviceCaps          1
  USB 2.0 Extension Device Capability:
    bLength                 7
    bDescriptorType        16
    bDevCapabilityType      2
    bmAttributes   0x00000002
      HIRD Link Power Management (LPM) Supported
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
Device Status:     0x0000
  (Bus Powered)

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**chewitt** · June 5, 2017 at 7:05 AM Official Post

You have an MT7610 device. There is a Linux driver, but it will not be added to this distro until MediaTek (or anyone else) creates a driver that follows kernel driver standards. The current one "works" but does not support a bunch of the cfg80211 framework which will lead to support issues. It also requires users to set the wireless radio configuration via a text file, which doesn't fit with our "it just works" oriented distro.

dolphs · June 5, 2017 at 9:14 AM

thanks for your reply, Or so no go on libreelec, please therefore can you guide me to a page which adapters should be working fine with libreELEC please? Should be an adapter that does 5G ( 433 /600 ) as USB2.0 supports max 480Mbit, eg an Edimax EW-7811UTC AC600 Wireless Dual-Band Mini USB Adapter . Cheers