[RESEND I've made a mistake with list of recipients] Update: I've built and installed mt7601Usta vendor driver, which is shown into lsmod output. ra0 interface appears as shown in the following output from iwconfig and ifconfig: ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisioni:0 txqueuelen:1000 Byte RX:0 (0.0 B) Byte TX:0 (0.0 B) The driver is properly loaded and the device doesn't connect/disconnect continuously as instead happens in mainline driver: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. |__ Port 3: Dev 7, If 0, Class=vend., Driver=rt2870, 480M Any thoughts? Waiting for a reply, Cristian.