“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”
“I was looking for a USB Wi-Fi adapter that could be used with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W without adding a kernel module. This product perfectly satisfied that requirement. Now, if it were a little smaller, it would be perfect.”
“I am not using with a Pi instead with a Laptop running a Debian derivative niche distro. It worked straight out of the box so the advertisement was correct: it indeed does not need additional drivers which can be a life saver when you want to connect to the network so don't have any drivers yet.
Thumbs up, would buy again. Everyone should have one in their digital bug-out-bag for emergency situations.”
“Works fine for connecting to a WiFi network, but I just couldn't get it to work as an access point. Only android devices would connect to the access point. Macbook, iPhone and Windows refused, returning to the password request. Tried to diagnose but nothing being logged on the Pi when trying to connect, and the Mac, iPhone, Windows failed to give any useful hints as to what is wrong. I am having to fall back to use the Pi 5 internal wifi to provide an access point for an upcoming event but that really isn't going to go far with number of connections (i.e. my reason for picking this WiFi adapter up).”
