On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] >>>> >>>> Thanks George, I'll try again, this time with Vmware if I can get it. I > wasn't aware the kernel developers needed access to the hardware for this > wifi device as I thought, from what I've read, that the kernel driver > module was actually supplied by Mediatek. > > Mediatek devs usually provide drivers tested with a specific distro and kernel. Changes are often needed for new kernels, and the device has to enabled in the Fedora configuration, so lots of places for bugs to go unnoticed until some user files a report. One way to see where a driver works is the the LHDB < https://linux-hardware.org>, but the site has become difficult to use -- maybe due to a combination of new linux users and AI data scrapers. I've installed F43 in a QEMU/KVM VM and managed to get the 6.18 kernel > installed and active, and also seem to have gotten the akmods nvidia driver > compiled as well, although the nvidia server doesn't seem to be able to > communicate. I can't check whether the kernel has an MT7927 driver embedded > in it because the VM can't detect the wifi device so it doesn't offer me > the opportunity to try to connect via wifi. > > There are some places to look. /lib/modules/6.18.1-200.fc43.x86_64/config lists configured modules. You check /lib/modules/6.18.1-200.fc43.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek, for example: % ls /lib/modules/6.18.1-200.fc43.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek mt76 mt7601u % ls /lib/modules/6.18.1-200.fc43.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76 mt7603 mt76-connac-lib.ko.xz mt76-sdio.ko.xz mt76x0 mt76x02-usb.ko.xz mt7915 mt7925 mt792x-usb.ko.xz mt7615 mt76.ko.xz mt76-usb.ko.xz mt76x02-lib.ko.xz mt76x2 mt7921 mt792x-lib.ko.xz mt7996 % ls /lib/modules/6.18.1-200.fc43.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925 mt7925-common.ko.xz mt7925e.ko.xz mt7925u.ko.xz (base) [gnw3]~% modinfo mt7925e filename: /lib/modules/6.18.1-200.fc43.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mt7925e.ko.xz license: Dual BSD/GPL description: MediaTek MT7925E (PCIe) wireless driver author: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]> author: Deren Wu <[email protected]> firmware: mediatek/mt7925/WIFI_MT7925_PATCH_MCU_1_1_hdr.bin firmware: mediatek/mt7925/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7925_1_1.bin rhelversion: 10.99 alias: pci:v000014C3d00000717sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014C3d00007925sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: mt792x-lib,mt76-connac-lib,mt76,mt7925-common,rfkill intree: Y name: mt7925e [...] Note that the author list includes both mediatek and kernel devs. Sometimes one module supports multiple chipsets, so a future mt7925e may support newer hardware. Once you identify modules that match part of the chipset name you can check the "alias" line for the PCIe vendor (here: 14C3) and device (here: 0717 and 7925) ID's. > regards, > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- George N. White III
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