Need help! WiFi has connectivity problems with Fedora 44 on ASUS Vivobook 16

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I am a Windows refugee who is very new to troubleshooting. I’ve transitioned to Fedora 44 and am enjoying it so far, but there is a critical issue, and that is WiFi.

The connectivity is slow and unstable. Even during the short moments when it is working fine, it still tells me that I have around ~60% connection and 0 B/s upload and download speed. All other nearby devices have great connectivity.

I’m using an ASUS Vivobook 16 X1605VA, and I suspect the issue is its driver. I originally tried to run Ubuntu and it straight up didn’t even give me the option to connect to a network. I would assume that my device has the same drivers as those described on ASUS’ website, but the bad news is that they appear to be meant for Windows 11.

Like I said, I’m a troubleshooting newb, so I’m not sure how to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Please show us the output of running lspci -nnk | grep -iEA3 "network|ethernet". Post that as preformatted text by copy & paste using the </> button on the toolbar of the text entry window.

This should tell us the needed info about the wifi adapter as well as the driver presently in use.

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0000:02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7902 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [Filogic 310] [14c3:7902]
        DeviceName: WLAN
        Subsystem: AzureWave Device [1a3b:5520]
        Kernel driver in use: mt7921e

Hope this helps!

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That adapter has had a problem for several years. It appears there may be some progress, but my suggestion is to either use a usb wifi dongle that is properly supported in linux or replace that adapter with one that is properly supported.

A search for linux driver for mediatek 14c3:7902 reveals a lot of negative posts.

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Thanks a lot for the advice. I’ll look into it and update this post when I have results.

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Welp, I spent around $30 on this dongle, and whereas there was a noticeable improvement in the connectivity, it remains insufferably unstable.

It looks like I’m going to have to change the driver/adapter/kernel ( I still don’t know the difference between these things and my research only ever turns up more terms that I don’t understand).

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The dongle uses MediaTek MT7601U, 2.4 GHz, which may not be suitable for locations with lots of WiFi activity or demanding use cases. Please consult https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi for current recommendations known to work well.

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I have 2 different dongles that work OOTB with fedora.

Both are EDUP AX3000 dongles and both with the same chipset though one has external antennas and the other does not.
One of them is:

and the other is