Hi aditya02,
Several people who have much greater knowledge than I do, have tried to help. Nevertheless, here goes.
First of all, something very simple: you described what happens when you right-click the wifi icon in your tray.
What happens when you LEFT-click that same icon ? That is what I do on my 17.3 and 19.1 mate machines to see the list of available wifi networks. Then I can choose the one I want to connect to.
Would you try that first ?
IF THAT SHOWS WIFI NETWORKS, YOU ARE DONE ! Choose the one you want, enter password and enjoy!
If that does not work:
Are you sure there is not some key that disables wifi on your system ? My hp probook laptop has a "key"/light/switch above keyboard that "kills" wifi. If no wifi, it is orange color, if wifi if flickers blue/orange.
Also, is there no software "block" on wifi.
Try
This should tell you more about this
If that does not work:
Have you tried rebooting with the wifi usb dongle inserted before boot sequence ? Sometimes necessary kernel modules will only load correctly during boot sequence. Kernel cannot recognize hardware and install modules if there is no hardware. Sometimes it is only necessary to do this once. Later you can boot without dongle and insert it after mint-login. My usb bluetooth adapter was only recognized during boot with dongle inserted before boot, but was NOT recognized after initial simple insert/plug-in.
If that does not work:
Did some research on
linux Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter driver
Found a lot of people out there who have problems with this wifi-dongle.
Good info here:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MediaTek_MT7601U
As of kernel 4.2 your wifi dongle should be recognized by the kernel itself.
Your lsusb output
Bus 001 Device 070: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter
Shows that hardware is supported by module mt7601u (148f:7601 is mentioned at bottom of wikidevi page, search "ralink").
BUT: (and I have a feeling/intuition that your problem lies here as you could not install drivers/firmware from manufacturer)
You might also need package linux-firmware-nonfree. It is in the standard repositories.
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sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
Or use synaptics package manager.
This package contains the file "mt7601u.bin". Dowloaded package and checked. OK. That is the firmware / driver that probably also is on the disk that came with your wifi dongle. But they gave you source- and make-files etc and expected you to compile them yourself. Possible, but difficult. I might be able to do it, but I'm not very confident...
Installing this package will install the firmware /driver in it's proper place. And already compiled for your Mint system. As a bonus, you get a lot of other drivers as well, which may come in handy in the future,,,
After installing this package, I would advise to reboot. May not be necessary, but cannot hurt.
If this still does not work.....
There IS an actively maintained site where you can download a .deb file. That is an option I would use only if AND ONLY IF nothing else works. And after backups of backups (Timeshift).
This .deb file blacklists the mt7601u module from the kernel and replaces the module with an alternative one (was created before kernel supported mt7601 but is still maintained even now). Doing this can make it more difficult to try other solutions because you would have to ininstall and reverse blacklisting. Timeshift again.
So please do not take this step lightly and do not blame me if this makes things worse. It is a big risk.
You can find it here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~thopiekar/+ ... /+packages
Take care to choose the .deb file in the folder for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic for your mint 19.1 or use this link.
https://code.launchpad.net/~thopiekar/+ ... .1_all.deb
NOTE again that installing this .deb file will blacklist the mt7601u module from the kernel !!!
Other things ubuntu users tried are even more difficult:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/457061/ ... stallation
You could for instance, try to download the driver from mediatek (the wikidevi page mentioned earlier sends you there) from:
https://www.mediatek.com/products/broadbandWifi/mt7601u
But you would have to compile from source, just as with the firmware you showed on your google drive. That is rather complicated. and I hope you can avoid that.
Hope this helps,
Sorry for so much text.
Linux is like my late labrador lady-dog: loyal and loving if you treat her lady-like, disbehaving princess if you don't.