MK808 + Finless ROM 2.1 + External Wifi (desperate call for help)

[saperos]

Hello Friends,

First of all I would like to thanks Finless for his hard work on this ROM. It is surely the fastest and most reliable one out there.

I am starting this topic as I read tons of other ones, lost 3 days already and still can't get my wifi dongle to work...

OK, so I bought a usb wifi based on Ralink RT5370 (sth like this) as I somehow found out that there are drivers for it. Before buying I even found a rom (by lewy20041) that had this drivers built in and which should work out of the box. It did not

So then I found information that FInless 2.1 also has those drivers. I flashed it, and found several ko files related to RT5370. I followed this solution:

[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande]1. turn off wifi[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande]2. copy rt5370sta,ko to /system/lib/module/ (I of course skipped that as files were already there :))[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande]3. rename rkwifi.ko to other name, say, rkwifi.ko.bak[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande]4. rename rt5370ta.ko to rkwifi.ko (also ensure you get the right permissions setting)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande]5. plug your usb wifi to mk808[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande]6. turn on wifi[/FONT][/COLOR]

I tried that with all files I found in /system/lib/modules that had RT5370 in name, but wifi ever turned on (just to note, I changed name on wifi turned off, restarted device after every change and tried OTG and normal usb ports) When I then tried to turn on wifi it automatically was turning off.

I am very kindly asking for help. I know that I am missing something really simple.

I know lots of you managed to successfully get usb wifi dongles to work, I hope someone will be kind enough to share instructions with desperate Linux noob

I bought this device so that my family can browse internet while main pc is occupied, and now this functionality is not working...

BR,
Kuba

[adrian123]

Hej
Udało Ci się to rozwiązać ? mam ten sam zestaw i kłopot

[gentos]

Hi
Hope you can find some info here :http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechfo...php?f=66&t=641
and here:http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechfo...php?f=66&t=231
I have mk808 with Finless 1.7 ROM and 2dark4you kernel. I think it best for internal rk901 wifi module.
I have compiled rt5370sta.ko module for 3.0.8+ kernel . It do not support nl80211 extensions so boot.img must be changed for wext. I have used adapter source from ralink site and Omegamoon's mk808 kernel source. The module is not 100% good. I can't start it by GUI setings only by rebooting stick. But 100% apps works with this module (scype, playmarket and etc)
BTW . I have Goclever tab 974.2 (polish brand ) with pre-installed rt5370sta.ko module. It do not work too