“Worked straight out of the box.... BUT...
I bought a Pi 5 and foolishly chose a metal box - the Pi aerial on board is really small with no plug for an external aerial.
The metal box is a wonderful Faraday Shield and basically killed all but working right next to the router.
The external wireless dongle works great but is so wide it takes up two USB spaces... otherwise it would be a 5*”
“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.”
