The solution is simple.
MT7927 is a WiFi card.
Use your ethernet port to get an internet connection.
If you dont have an ethernet port, get an ethernet dongle
Ethernet will give a much better connection than WiFi.
If you really cant connect to internet with an ethernet cable, get a WiFi dongle… one that works with Linux.
You just need to bypass this unsupported bit of hardware.
So does Gentoo!!!
I bet @Aerth did not seriously try Gentoo. If any distro is going to have a driver for mt7927 it would be Gentoo.
I wonder if the manufacturer has a linux driver?
Maybe you could use this as a stopgap solution until the onboard Wi-Fi is supported. You can find pretty inexpensive USB dongles that perform pretty well. Hopefully official support comes soon.
@Aerth
If Windows is working then use Windows!!! Simple problem solved!!!
Agree 100 percent. Too many choices can be a bad thing. It just causes confusion.
The topic was why no more people go from Windows to Linux. 
I did not try it, recompiling the whole stuff for my first installation looked a bit excessive and it would not anyway ensure I had a driver for the chipset. They don’t seem to provide information on new hardware they would support.
No, the manufacturer doesn’t provide any Linux driver.
I did order one actually, a ACL3 It’s supported since last kernel. It looks like part of the learning curve now to check if something is listed there.
According to people I have observed in my area, they just think like linux is only meant for computer enthus or professionals, they dont think it as a general os for daily use. Though it needs a bit of learning, it can be done gradually.
I have many friends who have an extra laptop at home with some old hardware and they just dont use it cuz its slow, and some of them have still kept win7 on it. I told them to try linux on it and try to revive it but they do it cuz they think linux is complex. They still think that linux is qll the command line and all. This perception should change.
I have also seen many people buying new laptops just for basic things we do at home like browsing, document editing, viewing photos etc, even when their computer is just 4 or 5 years old and they can just buy an ssd and install linux on it to revive it.
Although once my sanskrit tchr told me about her laptop problem…it was a 7 or 8 yr old hp laptop which was dying while running win10. So i just put mint on it and it still runs with a HDD but she is happy cuz she can now do the tasks she wanted to do which i mentioned before.
Also here in India, many people use pirated windows, like 90% of the computers if they are not new, i think if they try linux instead, they will not switch back…
We should be honest.
That perception is somewhat right.
Now how about cars?
I don’t know about India, but over here anyone can drive a car if…
they get a licence for it.
That involves learning the rules for the traffic, traffic signs, etc, learning the basic knowledge of the cars, that they have engines, wheels and such, and pass an exam, both theoretical and practilcal.
I whish there was a similar thing for using computers - but there isn’t
So one thing left, ordinary people (musicians, sanskrit teachers, painters, carpenters, etc.) need someone who can help them whenever they face a technical problem.
Using Windows they have Microsoft, they can even call it on phone (here we can). Using MacOS they have Apple - I assume.
Because administrating, operating the computer is one thing, using the computer is another thing, and they differ.
So, who can those “ordinary users” bother with technical problems regarding Linux?
If they are on their own, can dig up forums maybe, but that takes a lot of time and effort, meanwhile they can’t really work (use their computers).
If they have a personal contact to the guy who installed Linux for them, that’s great (actually the most ideal case currently), they can reach the “technical support” fast and easily.
When asking on a forum, sometimes they meet a grumpy old Linux user, and the communications stalls quickly - not a good experience for a newbie linuxer.
Do you get the idea?
We (we all) need to support people using Linux as long as they need it.
I like that.
Using Linux without learning the CLI is only using a fraction of its capabilities.
I know but I mean it should not affect the people who want to try linux or atleast have probs with their current machine
Using a computer should be about what you gain from the experience not about complex comand lines.
Hence we have gui for 95 % of the population and for most thats where it stops.
After i instal mint i give a lesson in how to use, big issue the close box is not red although its in the same place, except for mac users where its top left not right. Get over that and you win
I did have one client last year, virus all over windows, so installed mint, but everytime she called with a problem, she would say windows did not do that it was better, even with virus issues. In the end i offered her a refund on the install, she wanted windows 11 and the machine was not up to spec so another shop charged her 130 euros to take linux off and put winows 7 back on, illegal copy which will not register but she prefered that.
No pleasing some.
Do you remember Steve Ballmer: “developers, developers, developers…”
like a stroking angry parrot.
Now I’m like that, repeating “support, support…” 
…you are the supporter for them that’s easy to tell. 
There will be always the masochists
I agree.
This mindset should change too…
Oh! But its like they will never know until they try linux once.
I dont think modern mint or lmde does require a lot of support.
It is pretty stable. Although there should be a person in the town who can help them out. About This, I agree.
Fair enough. The Linux GUI should be usable.
But, a GUI only user would need help with an install, and with any custom configurations.
That is so today, but not 30 years ago.
What you gain is proportional to the learning effort you put in.
Yes, it does, sometimes.
The crash course @callpaul.eu gives his clients is the origo of the support.
Then when something goes wrong, the SSD dies, a new kernel comes with an update that is incompatible with that particular hardware, whatever can happen, like an accident: accidentally by nature…
Support has to be there for the “one unit radius” user.
Yes, that is what I mean.
Meanwhile I found Ballmer:
This is what I meant
Developers!!!
