GL-MT300N-V2 RT2800 Ralink Drivers

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Recently purchased a second GL device, the GL-MT300N-V2 to go with my AR300M-EXT as a backup device.

My intentions are to use it as a mid-long range WISP with a USB ralink WIFI adapter something i have been doing for 18 months already on my AR300M-EXT.

Out of the box with the GL-MT300N-V2 i’m having two issues:

  1. The rt2800-usb drivers are missing on the MT300N-V2. Easy to solve since i’m able to install the packages manually but i find it odd that the AR300M has the drivers included yet the MT300N-V2 doesnt.
  2. With the above drivers installed (Rt2800-usb and dependencies) i proceed to plugging in my Ralink USB Wifi Adapter go to scan for networks. From this point the router will no longer return any results. It seems the moment i plug in my USB Wifi adapter the scan feature is broken from this point. Unplugging it to use the internal Wifi results in the same no results. The only way i can get it to return results again is by doing a full reset without installing the rt2800-usb packages (internal wifi).

The same procedure works fine on my AR300M so i really cannot understand whats going on. Are there any differences between the firmwares perhaps its a bug of sorts?

Any advice welcomed otherwise i will have to return the MT300N-V2.

Thanks

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The two routers are using different chipsets, there might be some differences in the packages.

@luochongjun @alzhao

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You’d better just your AR300M for external wifi dongle.

MT300N-V2 uses MTK proprietary driver. When you install another open source wifi driver, it make some trouble.

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Is there no other other solution. Perhaps an old firmware build that works?

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Interesting to note its also broken on the AR300M using the later firmware builds 3.x. I can scan and see results in the GL interface but when i try to join it times out. I can only join using the advanced LUCI interface.