We just published a tutorial for installation of the UWN100 an UWN200 Compact USB Wifi Adapters on the BeagleBone Black. These adapters are based on the relatively new Ralink/MediaTek MT7601 chipset, so drivers are not widely available yet. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing the drivers.
Are there similar instructions for ArchLinux? I’m attempting to apply your recipe there, it compiles fine, but insmod is failing with a “invalid module format” error.
even easier solution the PKGBUILD is already there for you But
doesn't that mean its being built already if its in their master tree or
available as a installable package?
According to this, it seems that the next official ArchLinux build for the BeagleBone should contain this then, and all I need is wait? Or am I misunderstanding this?
I like the form factor of this adaptor and I’m interested in trying it out with Ubuntu and Linaro, but I’m concerned about the mystery driver. Who develops it? What is the license? Is there a version control repo for it? Is it going to be in the mainline Linux tree any time soon?
The UWN100 and UWN200 adapters are based on the MediaTek MT7601 chipset. The drivers have recently been published on the MediaTek website. They are published under the GNU General Public License (as you’ll see when you click on the download link).
UWN200 works well for me. Plug and play. Thank you Jesus, what a pain in the ass it has been to get wifi on my BBB. On the bright side I now have one of every wifi dongle ever made.
I did this, I hope I don’t really need the upgrade though since I’m trying to create a minimal build.
That was made on the Angstrom OS.
But