Re: MediaTek Mt7601
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 01:57:46PM -0700, Heppler, J. Scott wrote: > The wikidevi entry suggests that this may be low-hanging fruit to > add to OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD. The question I have is whether to give > the MediaTek away and try to purchase on older RealTek or be patient and > wait a few months? Drivers do not write themselves, and as far as I know nobody is working on this newer family of mediatek chips. Which is unfortunate. Finding a working USB wifi dongle should not be hard. If in doubt, try pasting some of the device names listed in man pages into ebay.
MediaTek Mt7601
I just purchased a nano-usb wifi dongle with the expectation that it would have a rtl8188cu chipset. In fact it has a MediaTek MT7601U and on perusing alot of purchase comments it seems that the MT7601U is supplanting the RealTek chipset. Ralink was fairly open and provided partial documentation for the FreeBSD drivers that were imported into OpenBSD. I'm not sure if corporate policy changed when MediaTek bought RaLink but the MT7601 driver is in the Linux Kernel => 4.2, the source is GPLV2 and redistribution of the closed source firmware is allowed. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Mt7601u The MediaTek dongle came on a slow boat from China so I'm not sending it back. The wikidevi entry suggests that this may be low-hanging fruit to add to OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD. The question I have is whether to give the MediaTek away and try to purchase on older RealTek or be patient and wait a few months? I'm presently using an older, larger rum(4) usb device. Thanks -- J. Scott Heppler
