2021-08-13, 06:10 PM
I hope you have some success Paul. Until now I've always used the EDIMAX dongles but for my latest build then I've gone for the Ralink. It has worked absolutely faultlessly and I can't imagine you won't have the same experience.
The addition of the dongle will (or did in my case) cause the interfaces to be renamed. The onboard wifi which was originally wlan0 became wlan9 and the dongle identified as wlan0. I use the onboard one as the local AP and the USB one for external wifi access per the OP documentation. The dongle should be identified something like:
>lsusb -v
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
In the Network section in OpenPlotter there is an "Install WiFi Drivers" option but you should not need to do this, indeed as everything works fine I've never been inclined to try it.
Good luck
The addition of the dongle will (or did in my case) cause the interfaces to be renamed. The onboard wifi which was originally wlan0 became wlan9 and the dongle identified as wlan0. I use the onboard one as the local AP and the USB one for external wifi access per the OP documentation. The dongle should be identified something like:
>lsusb -v
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
In the Network section in OpenPlotter there is an "Install WiFi Drivers" option but you should not need to do this, indeed as everything works fine I've never been inclined to try it.
Good luck