*From:* George N. White III <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, 19 October 2025 at 01:13 UTC+11
*To:* Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Network USB Dongle Connection Issue
On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM Stephen Morris
<[email protected]> wrote:
Lsusb sees the dongle without any issues but I can't identify what
chipset the dongle is using.
What does lsusb exactly print?
I thought the issue may have been fixed with deleting the network
definition for the wifi and recreating it with the new dongle, but
having used the wifi interface for several minutes it disconnected
and reconnected again, which is better than what it was previous
as it was unusable. The lsusb output is below, but when I ran this
originally, before the device was usable, the section that tells
me the manufacturer name wasn't displaying, but like originally I
can't see anything obvious that tells me exact chipset.
Usually the ID 0846:9072 is enough. You can check the LHDB with
<https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:0846-9072>. I see one LHDB probe
with this device. It is shown as "working", but doesn't give the name
of an in-kernel driver, so either may be using a very new (possibly
buggy) in-kernel driver or a 3rd party driver. "inxi -Nzxx" should
tell you what driver is being used.
From the Linux Kernel Driver Database:
<https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MT7925U.html>: "This adds support
for MT7925-based wireless USB devices, which support operation at
6GHz, 5GHz, and 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11be 2x2:2SS 4096-QAM, 160MHz channels."
Thanks George, that module looks like it might be it. The dongle/router
is a tri-band 802.11be device with 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands. I've
tried a modprobe of that module but at the moment it doesn't seem to be
doing anything, I'm trying to see if it is actually installed.
% modinfo mt7925u
filename:
/lib/modules/6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mt7925u.ko.xz
license: Dual BSD/GPL
description: MediaTek MT7925U (USB) wireless driver
author: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]>
firmware: mediatek/mt7925/WIFI_MT7925_PATCH_MCU_1_1_hdr.bin
firmware: mediatek/mt7925/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7925_1_1.bin
alias: usb:v0E8Dp7925d*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
depends:
mt7925-common,mt792x-usb,mt76-usb,mt76,mt792x-lib,mt76-connac-lib
intree: Y
name: mt7925u
retpoline: Y
vermagic: 6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 SMP preempt mod_unload
[...]
Just as a matter of interest is there anything I can do to
increase the connection speed? At the moment the device is running
at 29.2 Mbps but it is capable of connecting at up to 6 Gbps.
While writing this email the device has disconnected and
reconnected a number of times, which then also causes all the
active firewall zones to also bounce.
[...]
Look for details with journalctl. You may need newer firmware. Some
systems have buggy USB, or a mix of USB2 and USB3 ports.
Under windows the device has a driver supplied with it to enable the
device, which also lights a light on the side of the dongle and it
connects at 2882/2882 Mbps on the 6GHz channel.
I've issued the command inxi -Na -E and it has given me the following
output, does this mean there is no driver available for it? This display
is after issuing a modprobe mt7925u and a depmod -a.
Device-4:NetGear Wireless_Device driver:N/A type:USB rev:3.2
speed:5 Gb/s lanes:1 mode:3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID:6-2:2 chip-ID:0846:9072
class-ID:0000 serial:000000000
regards,
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