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News: New Firmware available for mt7921 and mt7922 chipsets #338

Open morrownr opened 7 months ago

morrownr commented 7 months ago

The guide for upgrading firmware is:

https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/How_to_Install_Firmware_for_Mediatek_based_USB_WiFi_adapters.md

Most will need to use section 2 as that section is about upgrading the firmware for mt7921 based usb wifi adapters.

$ ethtool -i wlx000000000000
driver: mt7921u
version: 6.5.0-0.deb12.1-amd64
firmware-version: ____010000-20231109190959

I haven't had time to note any additional features or fixes. If you upgrade and notice new features or fixes, please post in this thread to let us know.

@morrownr

kasinjsh commented 7 months ago

As I cant compile newer kernel to my SBC it made no difference to stability whit kismet etc.

morrownr commented 7 months ago

As I cant compile newer kernel to my SBC it made no difference to stability whit kismet etc.

Well, it is not clean what this note has to do with my notice about new firmware being available.

If you are having stability problems, trying posting an issue about your problem with enough details those that may read it to understand what you are doing or possibly try to duplicate the problem.

gordboy commented 5 months ago

Finally got myself a proper USB wifi with MT7921au chipset, the Comfast CF-953AX, and a pair of right angle USB adaptors.

Updated my firmware, and turned off power saving in NetworkManager config. Works nicely, getting ~650 Mbps transfers on my LAN with sftp and such like. The chipset in the laptop gets a miserable 300 Mbps, so this is a great upgrade For A Few Dollars More (TM).

Running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS with HWE 6.5 kernel and I made a deb package for this with dpkg diversions, so I can revert to vanilla firmware and NM simply by uninstalling my package.

Good work Nick, and thanks for all your help and support over the years. I remember the bad old days of the RTL8812au and begging Realtek (or anyone else) for a login to get their driver, and then laboriously hammering it into shape,

Mediatek are a breath of fresh air. More power to them, and to yourself Good Sir.

morrownr commented 5 months ago

Hey @gordboy

It is great to hear from you.

Works nicely, getting ~650 Mbps transfers...

I assume you are getting used to the world of much higher speeds. Cool stuff.

Running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS with HWE 6.5 kernel...

I see that Ubuntu 24.04 is going to use kernel 6.8. That means it will be supporting the new mt7925 (WiFi 7) chipset for USB and PCIe as the driver went into kernel 6.7. Things are just not what they used to be in the bad ole days of having little choice but to use the old Realtek out-of-kernel drivers.

Mediatek are a breath of fresh air. More power to them, and to yourself Good Sir.

Mediatek is getting better and better. It does take time to spin up to speed but with experience they are kicking some serious a$$.

Stop by more often. It was good to hear from you.

@morrownr