Firmware upgrade for Mediatek MT7922 Wifi chip

morrownr · March 18, 2025, 3:56am

Hi Simone,

Instructions for updating it yourself:

morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/How_to_Install_Firmware_for_Mediatek_based_USB_WiFi_adapters.md

## How to install or update firmware for Mediatek-based USB WiFi adapters
(also Realtek rtw88 firmware)

Maintained by @morrownr

Updated: 2025-03-10

Purpose: Provide the steps to install or upgrade firmware for Mediatek
or rtw88 based USB WiFi adapters. Some Linux distros do not include the
firmware that is necessary to support USB WiFi adapters. Debian prior to
Debian 12 is a good example. Other distros make mistakes and leave the
firmware out of their distro and sometimes you may need to update the
firmware to a newer version. Then there are the numerous server distros
where wifi support, to include the firmware, may not be included because
the maintainers think wifi is not used in server applications.

Information: In-kernel drivers in Linux come in 2 or more parts. There
is what is normally called the driver, which is part of the kernel, and
there is the firmware (binary blob), which may be 1 or more files, and
is not part of the kernel. Firmware files are part of the distro and

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