Switching from internal Wifi card to MSI USB adapter

Bazzite
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Hello.

I purchased a MSI BE6500 WIFI 7 USB ADAPTER from Microcenter today, because it was on the list of devices supported by Linux: USB-WiFi/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md at f9c4b27c1c1cafd92a8c5f504ddf327c28f7ee7a · morrownr/USB-WiFi · GitHub

I can see it when I lsusb

zoey@clippite:~$ lsusb | grep Micro
Bus 003 Device 013: ID 0db0:da0e Micro Star International 802.11be WLAN Adapter

But I can’t seem to figure out how to tell Bazzite that I want to use that device instead of my internal Wifi device on the motherboard.

I attempted to disable the internal device in the BIOS, but then I just… didn’t have network at all, and the “Wifi” configuration screen in Gnome was just gone.

As far as I can tell, there’s a kernel module available for this device, as it’s a Mediatek mt7925 inside, it just doesn’t seem to load on boot?

I’m kinda at my wit’s end here. Any debugging or installation advice would be super helpful.

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Hello,

I’m very late to the party but I have the same problem and unfortunately the MSI BE6500 is not a Mediatek chip, it is in fact a Realtek one.

In the USB support list you mentioned, the “BE6500” seems to be from Netgear. Kinda confusing but I’m in the same boat.

You should be looking for Realtek drivers. They do exist but I personally can’t use the wifi 7 speeds on CachyOS. I’m stuck at 200mb/s which is 10 times less that what the chip gets me on a windows machine.

JC