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 <jber...@free.fr> 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. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > 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. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1220146/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220146 Title: Ralink Mediatek 14c3:7630 wi-fi card isn't supported out of the box To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1220146/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
