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You said running lsusb for less output do you mean so the adapter isn't so hot? Im sorry I dont get what you mean with the paste.ee thing....what's it sharing? The dongle thing is a old Dlink....D-Link Corp. DWL-G132 [Atheros AR5523]

lsusb shows information about the connected usb devices. Just running lsusb shows less information that running lsusb -v (the v stands for verbose)  
 
If you copy the output of that command into https://paste.ee and click submit it should give you a link you can share so that we can see what the output it.  
 
With the output, we can identify which device is your new wireless dongle, and see the actual vendor and product ID we can look that up online to see if there are drivers available for linux.

be honest it just shows this for the dlink:  
idVendor 0x2001 D-Link Corp.  
idProduct 0x3a02 DWL-G132 [Atheros AR5523]  
And theother stuff Im not too crazy about posting /sharing some other ID thing in the output that could be connected to my pc and that site can access my pc for all I know.... I know you are trying to help but Im not crazy of that info flying through the internet. I dont understand everything it's showing so Sorry I'm just be cautious.It also says: "Couldn't open device, some information will be missing". Why can't we just search with the dlink info I gave? Also that paste site don't know anything about it....  
The old wireless dongle is over 10 yrs old or more. I dont have a new wireless dongle, just that little mini usb that doesn't work.  
Ralink Technology, Corp.  
MT7601U Wireless Adapter is what I found for the mini usb adapter. I'm guessing that's what you were talking about finding? lol  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-13 22:17:04

page with the driver but its tar something: /DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913.tar.bz2  
And I have no idea how to install or whatever you do with tar files.

Is the number after 148f one of these?  
 
7601  
760a  
760b  
760c  
760d  
 
If so, the driver should already be a part of the linux kernel.

Sorry got side tracked...what are you refering to with 148f number after what? lol  
And curious why the mini usb doesn't work and not recognized but a 10yrs old one works?  
I know you guys who know this stuff its like abc to you, but I'm still learning And I like  
that there's a few Linux users out there.  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-14 16:46:35

So when you run just plain lsusb the one entry should look something like:  
 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:760d Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter  
 
What I would like to know is what you actually have instead of 760d.  
 
Development on the floppy disk driver in the linux kernel just stopped last year. So I'm not surprised that your 10 year old wireless adapter works

this shows: 148f:7601 Ralink if I have the mini usb (in pics posted here) plugged in (doesn't work not showing wifi but worked in windows yet is compatible with Linux as it says in the pic).

If you run the following command in the terminal does it show a mt7601u.ko file?  
 
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u

sherbear@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010:~$ ls /lib/modules/$sherbear@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u  
ls: cannot access '/lib/modules/@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u': No such file or directory.  
 
Did I put the right line in? lol And the mini usb was plugged in when I did the command line.  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-14 22:24:51

I'm not sure what's going on there, $(uname -r) should be automatically inserting your Linux kernel version in the path.  
 
You can try running:  
sudo modprobe mt7601u  
 
If it's not there it will give an error, if it is there hopefully your wireless adapter will start working

sherbear@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010:~$ sudo modprobe mt7601u  
[sudo] password for sherbear:  
sherbear@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010:~$  
 
after my pswd it just showed the part where you are to do the command line after my name.  
 
I tried the other thing again exactly as you wrote it and got this:  
sherbear@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010:~$ ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u  
mt7601u.ko  
sherbear@sherbear-OptiPlex-7010:~$  
 
I'm sorry if I'm doing this wrong...here's a screen shot tried it again...  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-15 00:08:57

here's pic I mentioned

Ok now try the modprobe command I gave about, it's supposed to load the driver.

got this:  
 
I'm guessing you know alot about Linux lol Into doing code and all that brainy stuff?  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-15 00:50:12

So if you plug in your wireless adapter after running that command, it still doesn't start working?  
 
I think I have the basic fundamentals of Linux. I do know a couple programming languages.

the mini usb one no it doesn't work or show any wifi like the old one did.  
and the usb ports work fine.

It sounds like people have had to grab the source, make changes and recompile to get it to work  
 
https://github.com/kuba-moo/mt7601u/issues/64

do I extract and download that tar file that's supposed to be the driver for that mini usb ? I was told tar files are tricky?  
 
/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913.tar.bz2  
 
My last attempt to get the new mini usb to work.  
Otherwise just use the old one lol  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-15 22:05:45

Just right click and 'Extract Here'  
 
Or from the terminal, assuming it is in Downloads:  
 
tar -xf ~/Downloads/linux_DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913.tar.bz2 -C ~/Downloads  
 
I would think that you will probably have to blacklist the current driver.

Ill try that. thanks. I have it saved to desktop will move it to downloads.  
blacklist the current driver? wont that screw up whats making my old dongle usb work?  
and that didn't work.  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-15 23:15:31

didn't work ... this sucks lol

Looks like I messed up the file name  
 
tar -xf ~/Downloads/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913.tar.bz2 -C ~/Downloads  
 
Or just go to it on the file browser and right click and extract it, then no need to get paths/name right

I tried that just as you wrote it and nothing. I'm getting pooped trying to get that mini usb to work. Guess it's just meant for windows lol Thank you for all your help, and to all the other people who posted. I'll just keep using the old usb dongle thing or keep trying to find a windows disc. I have a BBerry z10 I need to have windows to fix it and a website subs:cription for movies only uses windows and a vpn I want to use (proton) only uses windows....

anyone know where in town I can buy a windows disc (not usb) for cheap? I need to get windows to fix a couple of things that can't do with Linux. So will have to do a dual boot. Even a legit windows 7 disc if need be (easier to use this one for dual boot as I heard win10 will overide Linux). Not concerned about security issues with win7 as will be using Linux for my main internet use. Also is a rescue disk the same as a regular windows disc?  
 
Edited by cheeseburgermonster, 2020-08-21 01:20:28

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10ISO

But I need a actual disc as my pc doesnt have a dvdr just dvd.

I wait to see other replies on the windows disc, I do want to thank all of you who took the time to help me with command lines and suggestions in relation to my Ubuntu wifi issue. It was cool for all of you to reply and really help me try to get this going.