I can see the wi-fi adapter is the ralink rt-3290 802.11 bgn wi-fi driver which is a windows 7 driver. It measures two inches long and the same issue. The product id is 0x7601 the vendor id is 148f *it worked.
Ralink was acquired by another chipset manufacturer called mediatek in.
When i plug the dongle in, it does not 'just work', ifconfig and iwconfig do not show the device, t. Solved >, Ralink/Mediatek usb wifi dongle not working.