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I'm still stuck I don't know what to do, I have done make, automake and cmake, what "make" does this thing need in order for it to work? It's so infuriating. (www.lb-link.cn)

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

gcc will get installed as part of the build-essential package that @ksynwa@lemmy.ml listed. And gcc should get called automatically by the make-command.
So, you actually don't have to do a manual step to put gcc somewhere.

Did you run those commands? Did it work?

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried doing make it gives me an error. Also (if you have downloaded the file checked it out), if I do "sudo make install" even with the GCC compiler installed, it still does not work.

[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

why don't you show or tell what this error is? people cannot telepathically know what is going wrong there.

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

make -C /home/uname/Downloads/mt7603_v1.16/os/linux -f Makefile.6 install make[1]: Entering directory '/home/uname/Downloads/mt7603_v1.16/os/linux' mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/etc/Wireless’: File exists rm -rf /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA mkdir /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA cp /home/uname/Downloads/mt7603_v1.16/conf/RT2870STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/. install -d install: missing file operand Try 'install --help' for more information. make[1]: *** [Makefile.6:1736: install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/uname/Downloads/mt7603_v1.16/os/linux' make: *** [Makefile:351: install] Error 2

[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

/home/uname/Downloads/mt7603_v1.16/os/linux

this looks like a completely different driver than the one you posted in your top comment. In which folder did you run this?

[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this for make or make install?

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

also i found this while trying to figure out what i had to do, it's a portion of it: https://pastebin.com/arbeKVvr

[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you sure your adapter does not work out of the box? Ubuntu seems to have the driver for it already at:

/usr/lib/firmware/mt7601u.bin

Maybe you can try sudo modprobe mt7601u and see if that makes it work.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

That's the firmware, not the driver.

The driver seems to be the Ralink rt2870sta.

Even Debian, which is fairly restrictive, has a way easier process to load the firmware with the Kernel driver: https://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta