Note: This may already be fixed with latest version of OSMC.
Note: My device was not detected in Raspberry Pi Model B (older model) because apparently, it can’t provide enough power to it. It does work with powered USB hub though.
I have a USB Network Hub (WiFi 360) from a Chinese manufacturer. It is detected as “Bus 001 Device 005: ID 148f:760b Ralink Technology, Corp.”. To get it working, I had to go through the following:
First, I sshed into the machine (you can do it with ssh command from *nix machines or Putty tool from Windows machine). The default credentials are osmc/osmc.
Then I installed usbutils to use lsusb.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get -y install usbutils
Then I used lsusb to confirm that the USB WiFi Dongle is connected properly. I also ran ifconfig to check if it is already detected.
Then I installed git, gcc, make and build-essential:
sudo apt-get install git gcc make build-essential -y
Then I installed kernel headers:
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y "${x#osmcdev=}-headers-$(uname -r)"; ;; esac; done
And then kernel source (which is ~100M so might take some time depending on your internet connection):
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y "${x#osmcdev=}-source-$(uname -r)"; ;; esac; done
Then I fetched the source for driver:
cd git clone https://github.com/porjo/mt7601.git
Then I prepared kernel source for compilation:
cd /usr/src
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) sudo tar xjvf /usr/src/"${x#osmcdev=}-source-$(uname -r).tar.bz2"; ;; esac; done
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) cd /usr/src/"${x#osmcdev=}-source-$(uname -r)"; ;; esac; done
sudo make mrproper
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) sudo cp /boot/config-"$(uname -r)" .config; ;; esac; done
sudo cp .config .config.org
sudo make modules_prepare
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) sudo cp /usr/src/"${x#osmcdev=}-headers-$(uname -r)"/Module.symvers ./; ;; esac; done
set -- $(cat /proc/cmdline) && for x in "$@"; do case "$x" in osmcdev=*) sudo ln -s /usr/src/"${x#osmcdev=}-source-$(uname -r)"/ /lib/modules/"$(uname -r)"/build; ;; esac; done
Then I built the driver:
cd cd mt7601/src make
It took some time (around 20 minutes on a Raspberry Pi 1 B+) and a lot of warnings were shown but apparently they were safe to ignore.
Finally, I installed it:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA sudo cp RT2870STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA sudo cp os/linux/mt7601Usta.ko /lib/modules/"$(uname -r)"/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
Then I rebooted:
sudo reboot; exit
After reboot, I reconnected ssh and I could see the new interface ra1 when running ifconfig:
ifconfig
If you update your system and if it again stops detecting the device, you should follow the same instructions again.
Sources:
https://github.com/Shareed2k/osmc_mt7601_driver
https://osmc.tv/help/wiki/kernel-sources