Missing Mediatek WLAN drivers from the Linux-Firmware package on the latest iso

[TotallyEz]

Is this a new report?

Yes

System Info

Typing from another distro

Package(s) Affected

linux-firmware

Does a report exist for this bug with the project's home (upstream) and/or another distro?

No response

Expected behaviour

The firmware package provided by the iso is expected to contain mediatek WLAN drivers in a folder titled as mediatek as shown in the package's github.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/mediatek

This issue can be temporally solved by migrating files from the previously mentioned github to the installed system and reinstalling linux-firmware (whilst overriding the previously migrated files).Although simple this may be quite cumbersome for new users of Void.

Actual behaviour

The firmware package provided by the iso on the following path /lib/firmware/ is missing the mediatek folder which contains the WLAN drivers for multiple mediatek wifi cards.Resulting in void being unable to detect WIFI on systems with Mediatek WLAN drivers.

Steps to reproduce

1)Download the base/xfce iso
2)Flash it
3)Boot into iso

[paper42]

The isos don't have linux-firmware installed, they only have these firmware packages:

%: xbps-query -Rx linux-base
linux-firmware-amd>=0
linux-firmware-intel>=0
linux-firmware-nvidia>=0
linux-firmware-network>=0
dracut>=0

This issue can be temporally solved by migrating files from the previously mentioned github to the installed system and reinstalling linux-firmware (whilst overriding the previously migrated files)

There is no need to force install it, just regularly installing it is enough.