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#1 2014-10-15 22:02:56

mvci
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[Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

Hi
my wireless card is "MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter"

MEDIATEK provides driver only for 3.13 and 3.14 kernels
my kernel is "3.16.4-1-ARCH"

I tried to install the driver on my kernel and it worked but when I power off the computer and start it again, there is no wifi option in network manager so every time I open my PC I have to install wireless driver

so how to get rid of that?

note: I am beginner!

Last edited by mvci (2015-05-01 17:06:30)

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#2 2014-10-16 08:35:11

mvci
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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

in the files of the driver there is a "load.sh" file I moved it to my "home" so every time I open my PC I run "sudo ./load.sh" in terminal to get wifi driver loaded
can I make "load.sh" run automatically?

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#3 2014-10-16 12:21:15

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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

What is in load.sh?  If it's just a matter of loading the module, you shoud follow the wiki.

What is chipset of this card (from `lspic -vnn | grep -i net`)?  Where did you get the driver and how did you install it?


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#4 2014-10-16 22:04:56

mvci
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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

Trilby wrote:

What is in load.sh?  If it's just a matter of loading the module, you shoud follow the wiki.

What is chipset of this card (from `lspic -vnn | grep -i net`)?  Where did you get the driver and how did you install it?


Thanks for reply
actually I don't know what in load.sh I tried to open it with gedit but I couldn't but when I ran it in terminal I get:
"insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.14.21-1-lts/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko: File exists"
then the wifi just work!
I have already followed the wiki but it didn't help me
in the driver source files there is a file called "modules.order". inside it there is (.ko) names like (rt2onfx00lib.ko)
I copied them to a (.conf) file in /etc/modules-load.d/ but it didn't work (am I doing it right?)

The output of "lspci -vnn | grep -i net" :
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14c3:7630]


I got the driver from mediatek site (http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/mt7630-pcie/)

I have installed it according to (readme file) like this:
* Copy Wi-Fi firmware (MT7650E234.bin) to /lib/firmware
  * Open Terminal and switch to root
    sudo su
  * Switch path to rt2x00 folder
  * Compile the drivers to kernel object (.ko)
 
    make clean
    make
   
  * Insert kernel object (.ko)
 
    ./load.sh
----------------------------------------------------------
I also tried the lts kernel which is 3.14.x (it should be compatible with the driver) but I got the same thing

maybe I need to mention the  output of ( systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service -l):

systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2014-10-17 00:50:02 AST; 8min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 138 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Main PID: 138 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

Oct 17 00:50:02 Muhammad-PC systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Oct 17 00:50:02 Muhammad-PC systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Oct 17 00:50:02 Muhammad-PC systemd[1]: Unit systemd-modules-load.service entered failed state.
Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

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#5 2015-02-27 19:38:19

xiroV
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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

Just wanted to share my experience here, hoping that someone will eventually find a working solution.

I have the same problems with the MediaTek MT7630e, and I have (with a lot of help) tried both the officially provided driver (as mentioned above by mvci), and the driver shared by Larry Finger on GitHub (https://github.com/lwfinger/mt7630), without any luck.

My results, as mentioned in the post from the Google+ Arch Linux Community (https://plus.google.com/+BrianPedersen/ … BfCZwRRhfc):

The official driver crashed while searching for networks, while the driver from github was able to find and list nearby networks, though crashed after a few attempts to connect.

For now, I'm using a USB Wifi dongle, which is really annoying, but after I disassembled my brand new laptop and saw how tricky the WiFi device was located, I haven't had the courage to actually try and change it.

Last edited by xiroV (2015-03-11 08:21:01)

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#6 2015-03-31 08:03:11

seniorihor
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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

Hello everyone!
I'm glad to let you know, that this issue has been solved.
Now you just need to use this package: mt7630-pcie-wifi-dkms.
Details on french archlinux forum.

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#7 2015-05-01 09:32:53

mvci
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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

seniorihor wrote:

Hello everyone!
I'm glad to let you know, that this issue has been solved.
Now you just need to use this package: mt7630-pcie-wifi-dkms.
Details on french archlinux forum.


Thank you
that make things easier.... but it doesn't work with kernel 4.0 sad

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#8 2015-05-01 17:04:56

mvci
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Re: [Solved] Wifi driver for MT7630e wireless adapter

The package got updated, now it is working with kernel 4.0
problem solved thanks to everyone
special thanks to the developer

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