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Hi @mg-dev25
I am somewhat puzzled. There is no driver that is available to install. The A8000 driver for Linux is an in-kernel driver. You don't install it. All you have to do is make sure the kernel you are using is 5.18 or later and the distro maintainers have installed the firmware. Your kernel: $ uname -r Firmware: Go to: https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi Scroll down to menu item 8 and click on it. You want the section for the mt7921au chipset. There are step by step instructions to install the latest firmware but you can use the info to check if the firmware is installed. For more info and guidance, go back to the Main Menu and select menu item 2. There is guidance at the begining of the mt7921au section. It will tell you various things like what kernel you need and more. If you scroll on down to where the A8000 is listed, it will give instructions for you to feed the needed vid/pid if you are not on kernel 6.4 yet. Once you are on a distro that uses kernel 6.4 or later, the A8000 will be plug and play. No need to do anything except log in your AP. One last thing. I am not familiar with your distro. What distro is it based on? Hope this helps. |
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My kernel is 6.5.3-arch1-1. Sorry this is EndeavourOS distro. What I did is the step present in the list. |
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Almost all Linux distros are based on one of the core original distros. I looked it up. Yours is based on Arch. That tells me some things I need to know.
Go to: It is the 4 line down.
That should not be necessary as you are using kernel 6.5. This means either the firmware was not installed or Endevour/Arch is not compiling the driver. Please do check to see if the 3 firmware files are there before you copy them to their location because if they are not there, you need to let Endevour know. |
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There are in the folder but with the .zst extention. When I do the command sudo dmesg| grep firmware I got this: ''' |
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I already copy the file without change the .zst one and rebot like ask in the instruction, but nothing happen. I don't know what command I can use to be shure it use the good wifi device? Thanks |
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To add information, I want to work with the 6ghz but it seem to be desactivate. ''' |
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''' phy#0 (self-managed) |
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This can maybe also help. (Sorry it's a long list) ''' |
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Hold on. Calm down. This actually should be very simply:
If both of those are good, the adapter should work. If the adapter does not work, it is something the distros devs have messed up more than likely. Please slow down and think about this: sudo and su - are weapons of mass destruction in Linux. Many users have made a mess of systems by not taking the time to get it right or making changes that are not changed back when it is discovered that the fix was not the fix. I know you want it working now but please slow down.
It is not clear but if you are saying that the firmware files are in the correct location but have an ending of .zst, I think that is a problem. zst is in-kernel compression support that can be used on drivers. I've never seen it used on fimrware and I think it is a really bad idea because the location and name of the firmware is inside the drivers and I am not aware of any drivers that support anything but the original name of firmware. This likely could be someone that works on your distro having a great idea that is a really bad idea. Your remedy is to delete the 3 files that end with zst and then install the files from the firmware guide I showed to you earlier. Hope this helps. For what it is worth, your adapter should have been plug and play with a 6.5 kernel and if the kernel was at least 5.18, all you should have needed to do was add the vid/pid like you did but you need to remove the vid/pid stuff with kernek 6.5. Cheers |
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Thanks. The USB wifi work now for the 2.4 and 5 GHz but the 6 GHz is not activated like show above in the data. I see that the 6 GHz was not test for this device, do you have an idea how to resolve this issues? My router have a separate network for each band (2.4/5/6) in the name. Thanks To add to this, when I do "it reg get" I have only the phy#0 which is the built-in wifi and global so I don't know why the USB phy is not registered. |
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If you are not seeing 6 Ghz, it could be because of the reg.db not being up to speed. Do you know the 6 Ghz rules for your country? Here is my result: $ iw reg get
This should be a system setting, not one that goes by phy. Can you post your output? |
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It's really hard to find a complete guide to set up this WiFi USB and Desactivate the built-in?
I have follow the steps to install the driver in Endeavor Os, but after reboot it still the built-in that is used?
Can you help me ? What command so you need to debug this situation?
Thanks
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