Alright after reading the feedback for my last post, I have installed Linux Mint Cinnamon alongside windows on my Vivobook. A very modern laptop, it worked fine, but it won’t find my network card i.o.w. I have no WiFi. Via USB-tethering I did manage to download the latest downloads, but also after a restart the system does not show any WLan capabilities!
I used AI to get some answers, but it actually concluded that I have to work around it because Linux simply doesn’t support my Mediatek MT7902, is this true?
I have an Asus Vivobook E1504FA with Ryzen 5 7520U
Running Linux Mint 22 and the wifi is not showing up
Is there a dkms driver or a specific kernel ppa for the Mediatek MT7902?
lscpi | grep -i network
02:00.0 Network controller: Mediatek Corp. Device 7902
inxi -Fzx output:
System:
Kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena
base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: Vivobook Go E1504FA_E1504FA v: 1.0
serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: E1504FA v: 1.0 serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: E1504FA.316 date: 11/27/2025
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.4 Wh (97.9%) condition: 43.3/50.1 Wh (86.5%)
volts: 12.9 min: 11.9 model: K340042 status: charging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 0 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 high: 1810 min/max: 423/4386 boost: enabled cores:
1: 1110 2: 1110 3: 1810 4: 1110 5: 1110 6: 1110 7: 1110 8: 1110
bogomips: 44718
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Mendocino vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel
arch: RDNA-2 bus-ID: 03:00.0 temp: 43.0 C
Device-2: ShineTech USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 5-1:2
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,radeonsi,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa
v: 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD
Radeon 610M (radeonsi raphael_mendocino LLVM 20.1.2 DRM 3.64
6.17.0-14-generic)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 2
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.5
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6
API: ALSA v: k6.17.0-14-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active
Network:
Device-1: MEDIATEK vendor: AzureWave driver: N/A port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF-ID-1: enxc68436aed645 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: unknown
mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode) driver: rndis_host
v: kernel type: USB bus-ID: 1-1:5
Device-2: IMC Networks Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
bus-ID: 1-2.4:3
Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 11.18 GiB (2.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL4512HBLU-00BTW
size: 476.94 GiB temp: 34.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 105.18 GiB used: 11.07 GiB (10.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 105 MiB (41.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.9 GiB used: 2.34 GiB (15.7%)
Processes: 300 Uptime: 16m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
Packages: 1953 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34
