Wi-Fi dongle causes brick to freeze

[luRaichu]

I bought this cheap Wi-Fi dongle to use with my EV3: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I191N48/

When I got it, it was plug-n'-play as it uses the MT7601u chipset (Amazon listing says MT7601 but that's not true) and its driver is already rolled in the ev3dev/Linux kernel. I was able to connect to 2.4G networks, However it would often cause the whole brick to freeze somehow. I decided to remove firmware-ralink and install newer firmware-misc-nonfree from Debian bookworm, which contains a MT7601u driver. After that the freezing seemed to cease but now I'm still getting it occasionally.

Output of lsusb: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter

Snippet from lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
mt7601u                49221  1
mac80211              360208  1 mt7601u
cfg80211              255501  2 mac80211,mt7601u