armbian-firmware incompatible with firmware-linux-nonfree

[hkoster1]

I was trying to get my Fritz!WLAN AC860 to work which requires Mediatek drivers/firmware. 

I noticed that the various kernel modules (mt76x2u, mt76x2_common, mt76x02_usb, mt76_usb, mt76x02_lib and mt76) were

already available through the armbian-firmware package, but the also required mt7662_rom_patch.bin was not.

The Mediatek modules plus mt7662_rom_patch.bin are available in the firmware-linux-nonfree package, but this will only install

properly after first removing the armbian-firmware package.

 

Everything seems to work fine now (I'm using my OdroidC4 as a headless server), but I have this nagging feeling that one day

I'll need to use some feature in armbian-firmware, since it was part of the original installation by default. Also, since armbian-firmware

has all the Mediatek kernel modules, why does it then not also have the mt7662_rom_patch.bin file?

 

 

[Werner]

59 minutes ago, hkoster1 said:

why does it then not also have the mt7662_rom_patch.bin file?

Probably because nobody considered yet adding it because there is a need for it
Feel free to do so by providing PR here: https://github.com/armbian/firmware/

[Igor]

4 hours ago, hkoster1 said:

why does it then not also have the mt7662_rom_patch.bin file?

... one option is to install armbian-firmware-full ... which has it all. For slim variant, follow @Werneradvice.

[hkoster1]

Thanks @Igor, that worked great!😀