MT7927 WiFi on Linux: Wrong Driver, Wrong Chip, No Driver
In my previous post, I documented the 15-month journey to get Bluetooth working on the MediaTek MT7927. The btusb-mt7927-dkms AUR package patched three missing layers - USB device ID, hardware variant support, and firmware extraction - to bring up a fully functional Bluetooth 5.4 adapter. WiFi was next. I spent most of a day on it and came out the other side with the wrong driver applied, a hard crash course in MediaTek’s chip numbering, and the realization that MT7927 WiFi straight up does not work on Linux. Not with patches, not with hacks, not yet. ...