Updating the raspberry pi model B to kernel 4.2+?

[Triffgits]

The title pretty much summarizes my means to an end. I'm trying to get native support for a USB dongle running the MT7601u chip. I've been told to update to kernel 4.2+ as it has a maintained and ready driver for my chip. I've tried running a few update commands I've found online (in order: sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo rpi-update) but that's only gotten me as far as 4.1.15+. I tried downloading the "latest" kernel and building it from source but I guess I downloaded the wrong one because after installation it still says I'm on 4.1.15+. Any ideas?

[Triffgits]

Moments after posting this, I revisited the github page and noticed you could change the branch to 4.2 and beyond. This is embarrassing. Is there something I have to do to close a thread?

[DougieLawson]

If you use BRANCH=next sudo rpi-update you can update the kernel to 4.4.0-rc8

It looks like that's the next move for the RPF since they are planning to jump from 4.1.15 to 4.4.0.

[MrEngman]

The title pretty much summarizes my means to an end. I'm trying to get native support for a USB dongle running the MT7601u chip. I've been told to update to kernel 4.2+ as it has a maintained and ready driver for my chip. I've tried running a few update commands I've found online (in order: sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo rpi-update) but that's only gotten me as far as 4.1.15+. I tried downloading the "latest" kernel and building it from source but I guess I downloaded the wrong one because after installation it still says I'm on 4.1.15+. Any ideas?

The mt7601u driver is included in the 4.1.15+ kernel. You probably just need to install the firmware to get it to work.

Install the firmware using command

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sudo wget https://github.com/porjo/mt7601/raw/master/src/mcu/bin/MT7601.bin -O /lib/firmware/mt7601u.bin

MrEngman