My laptop has the original Mediatek Wi-Fi card it came with. This weekend I turned on my FW16 and no Wi-Fi. Restart and reboot did nothing. I had to reinstall the drivers to get it working again. Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks!
I had the same issue on the FL13, it happened rarely, last time it happened when windows update running unprovoked(lid closed it should sleep) in my backpack. I resolved the issue by physically removing and re-installing the Wi-Fi card.
Does anyone know how to just install the Wi-Fi card driver (instead of installing all of them from the FW driver bundle). Thanks!
I donât think Mediatek has a driver repository, or if they do it is hard to find. You can try the standalone Microsoft Driver for the RZ616 and that shouldnât provide too many problems. Alternatively there are standalone drivers for the same wifi card from other companies like Asus, Lenovo, etc or from third party driver repositories like Treexy.
If you have the FW16 driver bundle, you could open the .exe as an archive with 7zip, extract the appropriate wifi folder (and maybe bluetooth folder) and use those folders to install the drivers.?? On Windows.
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Thatâs Mediatek for you. Throw out this crap and buy some decent Intel chip. Even the WiFi 6E ones are about 20 USD MSRP, so really not that much.
The issue is, AMD made a deal with Mediatek, so now everyone building a WIFi capable device with AMD CPU must include a Mediatek WiFi chip. And that Mediatek software is just garbage is known since the first Android phones with a Mediatek SoC shipped. Thingâs havenât improved since then. So no matter if you run Windows or Linux, Mediatek drivers will always suck, no matter if the hardware might be competitive.
Even the be ones are around that, however those donât work on amd platforms at this point.
Since they arenât compatible, I never looked at their prices and didnât mention them here for that very reason.
PS: is it known if thatâs just a software/BIOS restriction or whatâs the reason WiFi 7 chips canât work?
Currently it looks more like a bug than a deliberate restriction, my guess is the be200 does something weird on the pcie bus during startup that amds pcie implementation really doesnât like, if that is the case itâs possible amd could adjust the agesa so it can tolerate whatever the be200 is doing even if that was out of spec. Since you can only load firmware into the be200 after post you canât easily fix that on that side without rolling out another revision or a be210.
Waiting for the be210 may be a better case anyway since thatâll likely come out after the wifi7 spec is actually finalized.
I installed the Intel AX210 nonvpro /Killer 1675x (19⏠on Amazon) during the first setup. I didnât even try the RZ616.
Worked flawlessly not one single issue.
Same, I needed the mediatek for something else (intel doesnât let you do ap mode) and buying one of those was literally more expensive so I just grabbed that one.
Just installed the HWE kernel (KDE Neon/Ubuntu 22.04) on my system, and the mediatek WiFi just worked OOTB.
Is it this one?:
Intel AX210 IEEE 802.11ax Bluetooth 5.2 Tri Band Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo Adapter for Notebook
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-802-11ax-Bluetooth-Adapter-Notebook/dp/B0B4T696W5
Thanks!
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That should be the right one. I have the Killer AX1675, but it shares the same ax210ngw Chipset and its âGamingâ branded. You also need to download the driver beforehand for Windows on Linux it works ootb.
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Waiting for the be210 may be a better case anyway since thatâll likely come out after the wifi7 spec is actually finalized.
I was under the impression that Wifi7 spec was finalized as of early January.
I thought, like the 240W USB-PD spec, manufacturers were simply being slow to roll out hardware for an early, not yet highly supported standard. Once a popular product (like happened with the MacBook Pro and 140W PD) rolls out widely, manufacturer support will grow, and more options will become available. But given the current price of Wifi 7 wireless access points/ârouters,â they are not price competitive against older standards like Wifi 5, 6, or even 6E and therefore donât have the market cap to justify higher R&D for a product now, when a cheaper necessary component is likely to come out soon⢠with likely lower R&D costs in the future.
The be200 came out before that and itâll still take time for the actual implementations to solidify.