Comment 124 for bug 1049466

James

Sorry to be a nuisance, but I'm not all that well-versed in the ways of
Ubuntu and find that "untar" is not a known command. Could you please
give me chapter and verse (i.e. a list of commands) to allow me to do
all of this? My user name is david.

Thanks

David

On 22/10/13 02:06, James Dafoe wrote:
> Found another possible workaround if you want to use vendor's
> proprietary drivers. Someone over at archlinux created a patch for
> mediatek's driver: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rt3290sta-
> dkms/?setlang=ru
>
> Original Driver: http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01-1_windowsDetail.php?sn=5033
> Patch: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0kaibq0f4to0k2/rt3290sta.patch
>
> I wrapped it up into DKMS so it can easily get rebuilt on kernel
> upgrades. Download and untar into /usr/src and then run:
>
> dkms install -m rt3290sta -v 2.6.0.0
> modprobe rt3290sta
>
> This will:
> 1 - Add it to DKMS tree
> 2 - Build the rt3290sta driver with the patch
> 2 - Install it to the kernel driver tree
> 3 - Blacklist original kernel drivers rt2x00pci & rt2800pci from loading by creating /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ralink.conf
>
> To remove:
> dkms remove t3290sta/2.6.0.0 -all
>
> ** Attachment added: "rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar.gz"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+attachment/3886782/+files/rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar.gz
>