trying to install mt7610u (linksys ae6000)

[Nachteule]

(15th May, 2017 02:18 AM)TheDutypaid Wrote:  

(14th May, 2017 10:18 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  @TheDutypaid

Plug and play, should work out of the box line many other usb dongles

Yes, have read the same. Mine just won't play ball.

It was fine on another pi running Retropie but not with Xbian. In the Xbian config Network was greyed out just with a up/down arrow next to it and my router page did not show it connected.

lsusb, shows the dongle, so does that mean it is 'installed'?

No, that's just indication that there is device connect to usb port, nothing more

Module mt7610u_sta has to be loaded, and sudo ip addr has to show ra0 as device

Terminal

root@xbian ~ # lsmod | grep mt
mt7610u_sta 938483 0
cfg80211 475598 1 mt7610u_sta
root@xbian ~ # ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b8:27:eb:80:41:65 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.50/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ra0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether f4:f2:6d:1d:fe:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.61/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global ra0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
root@xbian ~ # sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:80:41:65
inet addr:192.168.1.50 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:856024 (835.9 KiB) TX bytes:111612 (108.9 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:2358 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2358 (2.3 KiB)

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f4:f2:6d:1d:fe:9e
inet addr:192.168.1.61 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:198 frame:198
TX packets:165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4576640 (4.3 MiB) TX bytes:27770 (27.1 KiB)

root@xbian ~ #

^^ That's output of my test XBian with usb dongle connected

Quote:I am not sure if I should go for a full clean install, but then it took me sometime to install all the plugins.

Make backup of your /home folder (Kodi xbian-config GUI, category Backup), then you should be save to make fresh install and you can restore /home whenever you want