Need help with wireless dongle

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I am following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlHWnKVpygw and i have downloaded the drivers that was sent in the video but i was wondering because i have a different wifi usb ( NETGEAR AC1200 Wi-Fi USB 3.0) if i need different drivers, when i run the "lsusb" command the wifi dongle shows up but when i run the "ifconfig wlan1 up" it just says "ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device" any help?

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what's the output -chances are it will be a different driver that's needed

I've read that our adapters only work with Windows and MAC OS and do not support Linux OS - here

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root@OpenWrt:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0424:7800
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0846:9053 NETGEAR A6210
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:2514
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:2514
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux 5.4.154 dwc_otg_hcd DWC OTG Controller

do you think i should return this one and try a diffrent one?

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see edit above - as of 2015, not supported in Linux (according to NETGEAR)

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ah okay thanks for that info i will try a diffrent company

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hang on - there is kmod-mt76 which supports "MT76x2" and this is MT7612 is it not?

kmod-mt76x2u is probably the package to install

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can you send the link for that so i can try to see if it works?

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link??? try opkg install kmod-mt76x2u

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oh my bad i will try that

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root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install kmod-mt76x2u
Unknown package 'kmod-mt76x2u'.
Collected errors:
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-mt76x2u.
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I take it you did a

opkg update

first?

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i have updated it like an hour ago but i can re-update it

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have you restarted since? package data doesn't survive a reboot :smiley:

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it has updated it i will see if it will work after i rebooted it

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don't reboot

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oh okay it works now i have 2 wlans thanks so much

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is there a way i can give you rep?

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oh okay wait a second it looks like my wlan0 and wlan1 got mixed up and my wlan1 is my primary is there a way i can swap them around?

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Just mark the appropriate response as the solution .... i.e. the one where I suggested which package to install -

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can you help me with this before i mark it as solved?
(oh okay wait a second it looks like my wlan0 and wlan1 got mixed up and my wlan1 is my primary is there a way i can swap them around?)