USB WiFi support

Any chance with the new build we can get support for a USB WiFi stick that has an antenna connector? Specifically, the AusPi Wireless Adaptor that is designed for RPi.

That wifi stick uses the RT2800 driver which when I pull the command…

cat /lib/modules/4.4.13/modules.dep | grep rt2800

comes back with…

kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko: kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.ko kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.ko: kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko

So, the driver you need is already in the kernel. Plug it in and you should get an entry showing that wlan1 has been added to the system in dmesg.

Also from what I have read in the RasPi forums there is a good chance you would have to run this off a powered usb hub.

-Cecil