USB wifi dongle not working on raspberry os [mt76x0u]
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Raspbian |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I had the same issue as reported on this forum post https:/
Trying to use an mt76x0u based USB dongle give the following error:
```
[ 6.721409] mt76x0u 1-1.2:1.0: ASIC revision: 76100002 MAC revision: 76502000
[ 6.724570] mt76x0u 1-1.2:1.0: mediatek/
[ 6.724629] mt76x0u 1-1.2:1.0: Direct firmware load for mediatek/
[ 6.729700] mt76x0u: probe of 1-1.2:1.0 failed with error -2
````
The user MrEngman did find the reason for this bug:
```
Just thought I should explain the fix I used.
The mt7610 wifi driver is now included in RaspOS but it expects the wifi module firmware to be in a different directory to where it is currently installed. Why the wifi firmware directory has not been updated I don't know.
Anyway the commands in my previous post install the necessary wifi module firmware in the directory the wifi driver expects them to be in.
In the RaspOS the wifi module firmware is in directory /lib/firmware but it now needs to be in directory /lib/firmware/
MrEngman
```
And had proposed a workaround:
```
I had similar problems getting the mt7610 wifi working on my Pi.
I managed to get it working using the following commands
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wget http://
sudo dpkg -i firmware-
MrEngman
```
It would be good if this issue is fixed on the mainstream package.