Question asus X555LB - audio & bluetooth adapter undetected (linux mint 21.2)

[ChaoticAvenger]

Hi all. Not quite sure if this is the right place to ask about this, but I'm casting a wide net.

I've got a (relatively) older laptop that I've been trying to convert into a productivity machine, win10's rather slow so thought linux mint might be a nice fit. Unfortunately using it without any sound output is quite inconvenient. I don't really have a clue on the speakers, tried checking the connection and anything else - don't really know how to test them otherwise. No I/O detected at all. For a little context the audio's been buggered ever since I downgraded the machine to win7 from win8 six or seven years ago, and after awhile of driver tomfuckery I gave up. A fresh win10 install had the same issues even after installing all of the relevant drivers from Asus' site.

I'm aware it's got one of those foxconn bluetooth wireless combo cards (MT7630e 802.11bgn if that helps) , but no luck on finding any drivers for it as the BT output is undetected. I've tried turning UEFI secureboot off as well, but no luck as the option's grayed out in the bios. Wireless is fine, but bluetooth seems to not be functional. An rfkill simply returns the the unblocked wifi card.

Please forgive my ignorance, I am but a windows tourist and lack much knowledge of kernel-level anything.

D TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD
0 wlan phy0 unblocked unblocked

System:
Host: x555lb Kernel: 5.15.0-83-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4 Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria
base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X555LB v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X555LB v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X555LB.408 date: 07/07/2015
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.3 Wh (96.8%) condition: 28.2/37.3 Wh (75.5%)
volts: 7.6 min: 7.6 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery status: Charging
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 804 high: 819 min/max: 500/2700 cores: 1: 819 2: 799
3: 799 4: 799 bogomips: 17574
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
bus-ID: 04:00.0
Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-83-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: 1c:b7:2c:a2:ad:c9
Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Foxconn driver: mt76x0e v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0f0 state: up mac: 40:b8:9a:76:90:15
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 22.89 GiB (19.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: LITE-ON model: CV8-8E128-11 SATA 128GB
size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 116.32 GiB used: 22.82 GiB (19.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 646 MiB used: 69.2 MiB (10.7%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C pch: 40.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2500
Info:
Processes: 248 Uptime: 1h 39m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 4.01 GiB (52.3%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 Packages: 2374 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

 

[hedwar2011]

The long and short of it goes like this:
1) You are trying to use a card designed for a Windows machine in Linux. Good luck getting it to stick if it does install.
2) It's an OEM card that was mass-produced to companies like ASUS, HP, etc. for distribution in their machines.
3) You might be better off looking into an external wireless/bluetooth adapter if you want to still go that route that's compatible with Linux.
4) Here's a few driver sites you could possibly try. No guarantees it will help though:
a) https://rocketdrivers.com/manufactu...cards/mediatek-mt7630e-80211bgn-wi-fi-adapter
b) https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/N...0E-Wireless-Driver-50570-for-Windows-10.shtml