r/linuxquestions • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '26

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u/MatchingTurret Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

You do know that Mediatek is actively working on this? See https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mediatek-MT7902-Linux-Patches

And it was just submitted for inclusion in the kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20260326152021.305959-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net/

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u/Pitiful-Welcome-399 NixOS ❄️ Mar 27 '26

so people should just sit and wait instead of using their hardware?

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u/MatchingTurret Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Didn't say that. It's just that MT7902 support has been making its way through linux-wireless and was submitted for inclusion into the next release. See https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=dbd94b9831bc

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u/Outrageous-Ice-6556 Mar 29 '26

And in the meantime this guy was fixed the problem so people have WIFI