[solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

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[solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by jahid »

Hey guys,
I just bought a laptop HP Probook 440 G1 and intending to give up my long companion, a desktop computer which was very reliable for about 4 years and it still is but anyway, I have decided to give it up. So the first thing is, cheers to everyone....

I have installed LM 16 cinnamon 32 bit version in my laptop deleting the open suse OS which came default with this laptop. But later i found that the wifi and bluetooth is not working. After a little googling I discovered that the driver for Mediatek MT7630E wireless card (internal usb) is only available for the SUSE OS. And i also found that there are many complains and feature request in the github and the ubuntu users are also having the same problem like others and i assume that linux mint might face the same problem as it is based on ubuntu.

My question is, will this SUSE driver work for linux mint? and if it doesn't then is there any working patch for this driver which will be fully functional in LM?
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jahid

Re: Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by jahid »

The official driver for this chipset is exclusive for SLED 11.2.

There's a working driver for linux mint/ubuntu in the github:
https://github.com/anthonywong/mt7630

But you need the kernel 3.5.0 (3.5.0-27.46) to get the wifi working.
I have installed LM 13 and upgraded the kernel to 3.5.0-27.46 and the wifi is working now.
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jahid

Re: [solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by jahid »

I have just found a better option than installing LM 13. The problem with LM 13 is that the video drivers was not loaded and cinnamon ran on fallback mode from the beginning.
So I have installed LMDE cinnamon instead and both cinnamon and wifi is working well, of course you need to downgrade the kernel to 3.5.0-24 to get that driver working.
jahid

Re: [solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by jahid »

Downgrading the kernel to 3.5.0-27.46 is working for LM 17 too.
jahid

Re: [solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by jahid »

Official Driver released:

Original: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/mt7630-pcie/

Modified: https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E/archive/release.zip

The modified version is reported to work for kernel <4.0
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rikthepotter

Re: [solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by rikthepotter »

Hi. I am new to Linux, and not so hot with computers... I have managed to reboot my new HP stream notebook with Ubuntu 14.04 and the wireless hasn't worked. I found your instructions, followed them and extracted and ran the MT6730E, which seemed to run fine, but no change. Still 'no network devices available'. Is there a way forward? Thanks.
jahid

Re: [solved] Mediatek MT7630E wireless driver for linux????

Post by jahid »

I need a little info.
Post the output of this command:

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lspci -v |grep -i wireless -A6
And also your Laptop model (mine is HP ProBook 440G1)

And the driver linked in the above post is outdated. The new version of the driver can be found here:
https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E

I will update the download link to that post too....
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