I am trying to use a mediatek usb wifi adapter on my fedora 34 server, but the device never shows up as wifi adapter.
On my workstation, I can see that the adapter first identifies as usb mass storage and then changes over to usb wifi adapter.
On the server, the mass storage changes over to scsi cdrom drive…
dmesg on workstation:
[ 5867.938764] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[ 5868.018647] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=2870, bcdDevice= 0.01
[ 5868.018660] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 5868.018698] usb 1-1.2: Product: Љ
[ 5868.018703] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Љ
[ 5868.018707] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: Љ
[ 5868.127758] usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 5868.127937] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0
[ 5868.128031] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 5868.130682] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 5868.790565] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 4
[ 5869.729837] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[ 5869.810559] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=7612, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 5869.810573] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
[ 5869.810577] usb 1-1.2: Product: Wireless
[ 5869.810580] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: MediaTek Inc.
[ 5869.810582] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 000000000
[ 5869.960908] usb 1-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[ 5870.042214] mt76x2u 1-1.2:1.0: ASIC revision: 76120044
[ 5870.107026] mt76x2u 1-1.2:1.0: ROM patch build: 20141115060606a
[ 5870.269634] mt76x2u 1-1.2:1.0: Firmware Version: 0.0.00
[ 5870.269647] mt76x2u 1-1.2:1.0: Build: 1
[ 5870.269650] mt76x2u 1-1.2:1.0: Build Time: 201507311614____
[ 5871.004445] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 5871.006864] usbcore: registered new interface driver mt76x2u
[ 5871.038056] mt76x2u 1-1.2:1.0 wlp0s26u1u2: renamed from wlan0
on the server:
[92725.687296] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[92725.814314] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=2870, bcdDevice= 0.01
[92725.814327] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[92725.814334] usb 1-1: Product: Љ
[92725.814339] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Љ
[92725.814343] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: Љ
[92725.816386] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[92725.816838] scsi host4: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[92726.854106] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM MediaTek Flash autorun 0.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[92726.855458] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[92726.874816] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[92726.874998] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
Any clue what is going on here and how to fix it?