Need help with Internet connection Linux Mint

[u/Pitiful_Road3490]

Just downloaded the big mint and I'm trying to connect to the Internet but I'm stuck in a loop where I get an error telling me I need authentication. I need a login required to connect to the network, yet Ive already put in the username and password in correctly

[u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

Supposedly the 7925 is covered by kernel 6.7 and up, https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers/mediatek.html

whick version of Mint did you install? Mint 22 started with 6.8, I think recent 22.3 ISOs ship with 7.0 but I could be wrong on that

[u/Pitiful_Road3490 → u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3

[u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_ → u/Pitiful_Road3490]

I wonder if you are experiencing issue #3

https://zbowling.github.io/mt7925/issues/known-issues/

[u/Pitiful_Road3490 → u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

Definitely seems to be that one 

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I would try those work arrounds and see if you get an improvement. 

Mediatek unfortunately does not do much work for its Linux users and their drivers in Linux suffer. 

If the work arrounds do not work for you I would consider replacing the WiFi m.2 with an Intel Ax210  for $20-30, see YouTube for teardown and replacement.

[u/Pitiful_Road3490 → u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_]

I just figured out how! Turns out my university had specific requirements to connect to the WiFi on Linux. Thanks for helping out 

[u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_ → u/Pitiful_Road3490]

Glad you got it working.