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Please just try what @gyrfalcon@beehaw.org suggested in their top comment in your other thread.
Just go to the WIFI-FE-2(Other Driver)/Linux Driver/DPA_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.3_20130313/ folder and type make. What happens?
The instructions you gave in your other thread are for a different driver.
This happens: $ sudo make install make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.
This is what the MakeFile contains:
all: make -C UTIL/ osutil $(SHELL) cp_util.sh make -C MODULE/ build_tools make -C MODULE/ osdrv $(SHELL) cp_module.sh make -C NETIF/ osnet
clean: make -C UTIL/ clean make -C MODULE/ clean make -C NETIF/ clean
install: make -C UTIL/ install make -C MODULE/ install make -C NETIF/ install
uninstall: make -C UTIL/ uninstall make -C MODULE/ uninstall make -C NETIF/ uninstall- -
Just type make. Why do you type make install? If you can't follow simple instructions, you won't be happy with Linux.
I already told you the error here.
This is the output for make install, or why is there an install keyword in the error?
The full command you posted is make -C /home/uname/Downloads/mt7603_v1.16/os/linux -f Makefile.6 install, which is something completely different to make without any parameters.
Just type make and nothing else.
Okay, that looks different. Does that folder in /opt exist at all?
You only need make and gcc. If you are using Ubuntu or Linux Mint you can try:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install make build-essential
make
sudo make install
You have to perform the last two commands in the directory where the file called Makefile is.
where do i put gcc?
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?
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.
why don't you show or tell what this error is? people cannot telepathically know what is going wrong there.
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
/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?
Is this for make or make install?
also i found this while trying to figure out what i had to do, it's a portion of it: https://pastebin.com/arbeKVvr
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.
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