little radio driver needed

[Nils Kassube]

Dave Stevens wrote:
> I was given a teeny usb radio for wifi but no docs or drivers, want to
> use it with ubuntu. I think it works, the donor says it is unused.
> When I plug it in this is what I get from dmesg:

> [13798.083114] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=148f,
> idProduct=760b 

Searching for vendor and product ID gave some results like [1]. From
that link I found out that the module name should be something like
mt7601. While such a module name doesn't exist for the standard 14.04
kernel, I also checked the latest HWE kernel for 14.04 - that would be
the package "linux-generic-lts-wily". There the module name is mt7601u
and "modinfo mt7601u |grep 760B" has this output:

alias:          usb:v148Fp760Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*
alias:          usb:v0E8Dp760Bd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*

So the first of these two lines indicates, that your part should be
supported by the wily kernel.


Nils

[1] <http://askubuntu.com/questions/498680/ralink-148f760b-mt7601-driver-not-working>