Mediatek Wifi Firmware Installation in Debian Buster

March 25, 2023 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

GNU/Linux Debian Buster Installing MediaTek Wireless Firmware Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-step How to Install Ralink/MediaTek Wireless PCIe/SDIO/USB Adapters Driver Firmware in Debian Buster 10 GNU/Linux Computers.

And to make use of the Latest MediaTek MT76 Driver on Debian it’s enough to dispose of an Updated Linux Kernel.

Especially relevant: this Driver is supplied from Linux 4.19 but some important Connection Issues has been fixed only starting from the 5.4.1 Kernel release.

What is often missing in Debian based is just the MediaTek Proprietary Firmware!

And this Firmware currently support all the following Drivers:

MediaTek MT7961 bluetooth firmware, version 20210223142901 (mediatek/BT_RAM_CODE_MT7961_1_2_hdr.bin)
MediaTek MT76x0 wifi firmware (mediatek/mt7610e.bin)
MediaTek MT76x0 wifi firmware (mediatek/mt7610u.bin)
MediaTek MT7615 cr4 firmware (mediatek/mt7615_cr4.bin)
MediaTek MT7615 n9 firmware (mediatek/mt7615_n9.bin)
MediaTek MT7615 rom firmware (mediatek/mt7615_rom_patch.bin)
MediaTek MT7622 Bluetooth firmware (mediatek/mt7622pr2h.bin)
MediaTek MT76x0 wifi firmware (mediatek/mt7650e.bin)
MediaTek MT7622 N9 firmware (mediatek/mt7622_n9.bin)
MediaTek MT7622 rom firmware (mediatek/mt7622_rom_patch.bin)
MediaTek MT76x2u wifi firmware (mediatek/mt7662u.bin)
MediaTek MT76x2u wifi firmware (mediatek/mt7662u_rom_patch.bin)
MediaTek MT7663 firmware (mediatek/mt7663pr2h.bin)
MediaTek MT7663 rebb rom firmware (mediatek/mt7663pr2h_rebb.bin)
MediaTek MT7663 rebb n9 firmware (mediatek/mt7663_n9_rebb.bin)
MediaTek MT7663 n9 v3 firmware (mediatek/mt7663_n9_v3.bin)
MediaTek MT7668 Bluetooth firmware (mediatek/mt7668pr2h.bin)
MediaTek MT7915E firmware (mediatek/mt7915_wm.bin)
MediaTek MT7915E firmware (mediatek/mt7915_wa.bin)
MediaTek MT7915E firmware (mediatek/mt7915_rom_patch.bin)
MediaTek MT8173 VPU_D firmware, version 1.1.16 (mediatek/mt8173/vpu_d.bin)
MediaTek MT8173 VPU_P firmware, version 1.1.16 (mediatek/mt8173/vpu_p.bin)
MediaTek mt8183 SCP firmware, version v12573.77 (mediatek/mt8183/scp.img)
MediaTek MT7921 hdr firmware, version 20210122002654a (mediatek/WIFI_MT7961_patch_mcu_1_2_hdr.bin)
MediaTek MT7921 firmware, version 20210122002730 (mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7961_1.bin)
MOXA UPort 1110 firmware (moxa/moxa-1110.fw)
MOXA UPort 1130 firmware (moxa/moxa-1130.fw)
MOXA UPort 1130I firmware (moxa/moxa-1131.fw)
MOXA UPort 1150 firmware (moxa/moxa-1150.fw)
MOXA UPort 1150I firmware (moxa/moxa-1151.fw)
MOXA UPort 1250 firmware (moxa/moxa-1250.fw)
MOXA UPort 1250I firmware (moxa/moxa-1251.fw)
MOXA UPort 1410 firmware (moxa/moxa-1410.fw)
MOXA UPort 1450 firmware (moxa/moxa-1450.fw)
MOXA UPort 1450I firmware (moxa/moxa-1451.fw)
MOXA UPort 1610-16 firmware (moxa/moxa-1613.fw)
MOXA UPort 1610-8 firmware (moxa/moxa-1618.fw)
MOXA UPort 1650-16 firmware (moxa/moxa-1653.fw)
MOXA UPort 1650-8 firmware (moxa/moxa-1658.fw)
MediaTek MT7601U firmware, version 34 (mt7601u.bin)
MediaTek MT7630/MT7650 Bluetooth firmware (mt7650.bin)
MediaTek MT76x2 firmware, version 1.9 (mt7662.bin)