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I just received a brand new Asus Vivobook 15 and installed Ubuntu 23.04 on it. I noticed that the wifi connection wasn't available in the "Try Ubuntu" USB-mounted OS, but proceeded to install Ubuntu 23.04 anyway, checking the box for installing third-party drivers. I ran lshw -C network with the following output:

  *-network UNCLAIMED       
       description: Network controller
       product: MEDIATEK Corp.
       vendor: MEDIATEK Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: iomemory:ff0-fef memory:fff0300000-fff03fffff memory:fcf00000-fcf07fff

The output for lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net is:

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: MEDIATEK Corp. Device [14c3:7902]
    Subsystem: AzureWave Device [1a3b:5520]
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Micron Technology Inc Device [1344:5413] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Micron Technology Inc Device [1344:2100]

After installation, there is no wifi device available. I have searched for solutions, but I have only come across an old thread about Mediatek wifi devices not working on Ubuntu 20.04 and recommending updating to kernel 5.12+ and Ubuntu 21.04.

Another set of instructions recommend connecting over ethernet (which I don't have) or bluetooth tethering (I also cannot turn on bluetooth on the laptap). The last ditch effort is to mount the Ubuntu ISO as a cdrom, but that was also not detected by the Software Sources application.

Does anyone have any idea whether Mediatek devices function on the newest Ubuntu kernels, or should I return the laptop to the seller?

Edit: As of May 13, 2023, the Mediatek MTK7902 wifi/bluetooth card is not supported in Linux 6.3 kernel.

Ethan
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I spent a lot of time trying to find a solution for this.

July 21: It seems the card is not supported: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=3ad05eed61

But someone from another site shared this repo: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/usb/musb/mediatek.c

I contacted the emails but no one replied. seems for the USB though not for the card.

So last resort was external USB-WIFI, I tried Elecon USB-WIFI WTC117 but it does not work, so I purchased TP-Link USB Wifi TL-WN725N and it works well for now. Someone from reddit used BrosTrend AC1200 adapter and it works well for them!

I hope some can help in integrating this card because now with wifi-usb we can connect but the Bluetooth is not working.

Best of luck!

Update Aug 6: replacing the wifi_card is also an option, but it would void the warranty, check your laptops architecture first before buying a card. I have purchased Intel AX210NGW and downloaded the drivers from intel website, installed them on Windows, and it works perfectly. for Ubuntu the 6.2 and 5.19 work fine from what I tried, both Bluetooth and wifi.

ibraslmh
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I have exact same problem.

Workarround:

If you have an Android with a mobile internet connection (beware of possible high billings depending on the active plan with mobile phone company), connect USB cable, enable USB tethering option and there you go. You should have internet access.

Mauricio
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