MT7610U 0e8d:7610 MediaTek USB Wireless adapter not working in Ubuntu 17.10

[ilbuonme]

I am trying to get my MediaTek USB Wireless adapter to work in Ubuntu "Artful" 17.10.

lsusb output: Bus 002 Device 019: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc.
ID: 0e8d:7610
Chipset: MT7610U

I tried the following guides/howtos, to no avail:

• http://lugscandiano.org/index.php/In..._ralink_RT2870
• The 3rd post in https://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?t=216885
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/1680.../168046#168046
  (I edited /etc/network/interfaces and added the row "iface wlp2s0 inet manual" to it).
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/9655...g-ubuntu-17-10
  which applies to Ubuntu 17.10, my distro.
• Through https://askubuntu.com/questions/8743...ediatek#874373 I found
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/6741...ralink-mt7610u
  ... also not working.
• https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2325350
  which directed me to
  http://hprath.com/2014/06/cisco-link...-driver-patch/
  which pointed me to https://bitbucket.org/sanrath/mediat...bit/downloads/
  But also those drivers did not work (though they had been also recommended by https://askubuntu.com/questions/7166...ss-usb-adapter and
  https://www.lffl.org/2016/06/aukey-w...reless-pc.html)
• https://superuser.com/questions/7380...-rt2860-driver
  which made me edit
  ~/voluminosi/wireless_adapter/edited-sanrath/sanrath-mediatek_mt7610u_sta_driver_linux-64bit-95fd2aa84ad7/os/linux$ vim config.mk

If I add

blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2x00usb

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, my internal default wifi card is de-activated, but I am left with no working wireless.

Can anyone please help? Thank you!

[chili555]

Please see: https://askubuntu.com/questions/9754.../975504#975504

[ilbuonme]

Thank you, sorry for not finding those replies before asking.

[chili555]

No apology needed. The only reason that I could find and link it quickly is that this device has been one of the very few that my colleagues and I have worked on that won't work at all in any recent kernel. It has haunted me.