“I've only tested two of the three units I purchased. One was for an access point running @2.4G and the other for a 5G AP on my Pi 5. Both just worked. Getting USB dongles to work and stay working on a Raspberry Pi is a pain.”
“Decent item and is hard to find a UK seller with a confirmed MT7612U chipset dongle - bought for a project that requires active monitor mode, and I can confirm this dongle supports it.”
“I was hoping that the device would plug into my Pi 3B and sort of just work. But it didn't.
After some investigation, I realised that reason it didn't work was because the version (Debian 13 Trixi) of Linux is too new for the chipset: MT7612u at the time of me trying to do this.
I decided that I would do what I have done a few of times before and simply ( never that simple!! ) rebuild the kernel and build a new driver. But that didn't work. Turns out that the actual owner of the MT7612u chip set (MediaTek) haven't made their code available and thus I cant build it to work with debian 13.
It seems it's down to them to supply the correct driver that will work with this version of debian and I am sure they will make it available some time in the near future.
I have not tried it on an older version of Linux running on the Pi. I will keep hold of it to see if I can get it to work.”
“This wifi adapter is good ,it works really well with my Piroman 5 case,theon board wifion pi was getting shielded by the aluminum case ,this solved my problem a big thumbs up for this wifi adapter”
