How to install Mediatek MT7630E wireless LAN driver in Linux Mint/Ubuntu
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8 years ago 3 |
Mediatek launched a working driver for their wireless device MT7630E for Linux Mint/Ubuntu which was officially supported only for kernel 3.13 and 3.14. The modified driver I am going to use can be installed upto kernel 4.4.*
Download:
Download the driver from here (It's a modification of the original driver for easy installation)
Install:
Now follow the instructions below:
1. extract the archive in your Downloads directory (or any other directory).
2. In terminal run:
cd ~/Downloads/MT7630E-release (change the path if you extracted in another folder)
3. now run these commands one by one:
sudo chmod +x install
sudo ./install
It will prompt for your password. Put your password and wait to finish the installaion.
After installation has been completed the wifi will appear in the networkmanager and bluetooth will be available for use. The driver will load at startup automatically, so you don't need to load the driver every time you reboot.
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Thank you ! (Asus S551L + LinuxMint Tara)
If wifi works after installing the driver but bluetooth doesn't, you should check "Readme.md" in driver file directory (/Downloads/MT7630E-release).
There is a instruction how to run a script that turn bluetooth on.
It is good activate kernel repository in software source, script download and patch kernel for you.
Works for me on Asus X550V.
Sorry for my bad english, it is not my native lanquage.
It works fine for me thanks..
Kernel 4.6.0
Mint 18
@jefreesujit
something is wrong with your environment (not the driver) i.e it failed even before starting to compile the driver. Better post this at Ubuntu Forums
Wifi is not working for MT7630E in ubuntu 15.10. I followed the instructions, but it doesnt work.
i got this error.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=/home/jefree/Documents/new wifi/MT7630E-release/rt2x00 modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-23-generic'
arch/x86/Makefile:138: CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support
Makefile:669: Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong not supported by compiler
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'wifi/MT7630E-release/rt2x00'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-23-generic'
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
cp -v firmware/*/* /lib/firmware/
‘firmware/BT/mt76x0.bin’ -> ‘/lib/firmware/mt76x0.bin’
‘firmware/Wi-FI/MT7650E234.bin’ -> ‘/lib/firmware/MT7650E234.bin’
cp rt2x00/mt7630e.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
cp: cannot stat ‘rt2x00/mt7630e.ko’: No such file or directory
Makefile:16: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 1
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'mt7630e': Invalid argument
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'mt76xx': Invalid argument
@crack25
wifi works on the new kernels with this driver, but the bluetooth problem still persists. We haven't found any cause-and-solution for that yet...
Wifi is working with LM17.2 (kernel 4.2.0-18) ASUS TP500LN. Bluetooth does not work.
I just used this for Linux Mint 17.2 on a newly purchased ASUS X555LB-NS51 laptop and it worked for me. Thank you! Quick note: the ./install command also needed sudo.
The driver has been updated and the kernel support has been extended. This driver seems to be installable even in kernel 4.0
That's upto mediatek, if they start supporting ubuntu 14.10 then you will be able to do what you want...
It will only work with kernel version 13 and 14......So it will not work on Ubuntu 14.10 which has kernel 3.16
@ freezx,
yeah, many laptops, specially asus laptops are facing that problem. It's because of the main driver is not that resource efficient. You have to wait until mediatek releases an efficient version of the driver.
Bug report for this problem and related discussions
great , very useful!
Thanks!