Ubuntu – Ubuntu 16.04 Asus Mediatek MT7630E doesn’t work

16.04driversmediatekwireless

I had this working on Elementary but then it stopped so I switched to Ubuntu and I still can not get this driver installed and working.

I followed this tutorial
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1796

As well as using the same install file but sudo bash install. I keep getting this error and output: 

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=/home/alyson/Downloads/MT7630E-release/rt2x00 modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-28-generic'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-28-generic'
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=/home/alyson/Downloads/MT7630E-release/btloader modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-28-generic'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-28-generic'
cp -v firmware/*/* /lib/firmware/
'firmware/BT/mt76x0.bin' -> '/lib/firmware/mt76x0.bin'
'firmware/Wi-FI/MT7650E234.bin' -> '/lib/firmware/MT7650E234.bin'
cp rt2x00/mt7630e.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
cp btloader/mt76xx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
depmod
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'mt7630e': Required key not available

I am assuming this is a 16.04 issue, but I do not know enough to work around it or know how to find another driver. any help would be greatly appreciated ! 🙂

Best Answer

This driver (on GitHub) works pretty well for me:

Installation

You need kernel headers to build the driver

As an example, on Debian and derivatives, assuming you're on an amd64 system:

sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-amd64

That's all for dependencies.

First give some file execution permission:

chmod u+x install test uninstall bpatch

Now to install it, run:

./install

To test it without installing, run:

./test

To uninstall, run:

./uninstall

To install with dkms:

sudo make dkms

The driver will automatically load at startup.

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