2015-12-21 12:09:27

by Anca Emanuel

Subject: Mediatek wifi

Hi Linus Walleij, and everyone interested.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/676390/no-wi-fi-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts-asus-notebook-with-mediatek-mt7630e

Here is the bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1220146

https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E is reported to work for wifi.

Maybe it works to add usb ids to
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00
and firmware.

2015-12-21 18:39:49

by Anca Emanuel

Subject: Re: Mediatek wifi

Sorry, 's/usb/pci'

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Anca Emanuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Linus Walleij, and everyone interested.
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/676390/no-wi-fi-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts-asus-notebook-with-mediatek-mt7630e
>
> Here is the bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1220146
>
> https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E is reported to work for wifi.
>
> Maybe it works to add usb ids to
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00
> and firmware.

2015-12-22 10:30:40

by Linus Walleij

Subject: Re: Mediatek wifi

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Anca Emanuel <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E is reported to work for wifi.

Yes this works because it contains a forked and bitrotting copy
of the entire Mediatek code drop including a fork of rt2x00 from
the v3.10 kernel. It's not going to last, and I can't
get it to compile properly with the most recent Fedora kernel
relase (v4.3.x-based).

Ubuntu will also run into the problem sooner or later. :(

Yours,
Linus Walleij