Comment 299 for bug 1220146

That was my personal experience and conclusion after being in this thread
for *years* and being an Ubuntu user for even more years. So save yourself
some time - that's my message.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 4:22 PM hexvolt <email address hidden> wrote:

> I feel like I have to share my experience with this WiFi adapter and
> ubuntu. I'm in this thread for a few years. In the beginning, I tried
> everything, all permutations of kernel versions and driver versions and
> sometimes it worked a little better than not working at all, sometimes it
> was working but dead slow, but in any way after the next software update,
> you would have to start this journey again. Bluetooth never worked
> properly. Almost always, nothing was stable. It was like I was spending
> days trying to hack the system and make basic vital things work, despite
> the fact I spent quite some money on my Ubuntu-based laptop.
>
> Then I gave up and, after googling a lot, I bought another WiFi module
> Intel 7620. WiFi was finally stable. Bluetooth never was stable either
> though, so I didn't use it and by that time I was just happy to have a
> stable WiFi. But after each software update, I held my breath and rechecked
> if it still works properly and not lagging at 1MBpS speed. As to Bluetooth
> - you can still forget about it.
>
> This is my advice: if you need everything to work properly and stable, and
> you need the same Unix eco-system for work\programming (or just because you
> like it), my advice - just buy Mac next time you will be upgrading your
> hardware. Unfortunately, that's the only way to have Unix-based user
> machine (not talking about servers) with working hardware and peripherals.
> Ubuntu's driver's system has a major flaw in design because of its hard
> dependency on kernel versions. That's why this will *always* happen -
> broken drivers, unstable devices etc etc with every update. And that's why
> hardware manufacturers don't produce linux drivers much - it's just too
> expensive to maintain and redevelop them for each combination of kernel\OS
> versions you have.
>
> TLDR: Unfortunately, this is the endless problem you will ALWAYS have in
> linux, not just with this WiFi module. No matter how hard the community or
> manufacturers commit to Linux's driver's base. If you want a proper
> Unix-based system with stable hardware and peripherals, buy Mac and ditch
> Ubuntu. Unless you are getting fun digging into kernels and hacking the OS
> on a regular basis.
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 1:15 PM Jean <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello, the kuba-moo / benjarobin driver+patches worked fine until today
>> when I migrated from Debian Stretch to Debian Buster. I could get wifi
>> working, but not bluetooth, because the 'bpatch' try to uninstall the
>> current linux-image and replace it by 5 others packages, which could
>> break my system. Something appears to be changed in the way of using
>> kernel source, but I don't know enough to understand how to manage it.
>> Does anyone use mt7630e with Debian Buster and can help me ? Thanks a
>> lot.
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220146
>>
>> Title:
>> Ralink Mediatek 14c3:7630 wi-fi card isn't supported out of the box
>>
>> Status in HWE Next:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in HWE Next trusty series:
>> Won't Fix
>> Status in Linux:
>> Unknown
>> Status in vivid:
>> New
>> Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
>> Triaged
>> Status in linux-lts-xenial package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in linux package in Fedora:
>> New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> This device is appearing in some OEM machines, but driver is not yet
>> available in mainline.
>>
>> The driver seems to be present in machines with pre-installed OS, but
>> isn't available on the download-and-install versions!
>>
>> The driver that upstream is working on can be found at
>> https://github.com/lwfinger/mt7630.
>>
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