Ralink wifi driver works fine on 12:04 but causes kernel panic on 12:10

[pnelnik]

On a Fujitsu Lifebook, I did a dual install of Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12:10.
For wifi it uses Ralink RT3290

To get the wifi working I got the driver from the Ralink web-site.
I followed the install instructions mentioned:
http://rricketts.com/installing-ralink-rt3290-wireless-drivers-in-ubuntu-12-04/

I was then able to connect to the wifi, but ubuntu was then very unstable.
I was never able to do more than about 30 seconds of surfing with firefox.
The OS would crash sometimes even before firefox was loaded.
Each time, I saw the following on the screen:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
panic occurred, switching back to text console
[drm] nouveau 000:01:00.0: no native mode. forcing panel scaling
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Had the following in /var/log/kern.log ( which may or may not be relevant ):
RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI

The work around I found that entirely got rid of the problem was to switch from Ubuntu 12:10 to 12:04.
It is now working fine on my machine.

So it looks like we have one of the following:
(i) I've done something silly
(ii) there is a bug in 12:10 causing the crash
(iii) there is a bug in the ralink driver
(iv) something else

Here's more of the kern.log

Dec 4 19:09:49 ubuntu kernel: [ 485.329261] SSDA:(Two) Antenna Configuration
Dec 4 19:09:49 ubuntu kernel: [ 485.329266] cmbCtrl = 50c0ff00
Dec 4 19:10:13 ubuntu kernel: [ 509.273353] RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.226915] CacheVal-OnOff:0, bPCIclkOff:1, WlanFunCtrl:0xff000133
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.226923] ==> RTMPWlan 0, bPCIclkOff = 1, pAd->WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000123
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.226924] Set INT_MASK_CSR = 0
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.226932] ==> RTMPWlan 0, bPCIclkOff = 1, WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.226936] <== RTMPWlan 0 bPCIclkOff = 1 pAd->WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.233963] CacheVal-OnOff:0, bPCIclkOff:1, WlanFunCtrl:0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.233972] ==> RTMPWlan 0, bPCIclkOff = 1, pAd->WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.233973] Set INT_MASK_CSR = 0
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.234004] ==> RTMPWlan 0, bPCIclkOff = 1, WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.234008] <== RTMPWlan 0 bPCIclkOff = 1 pAd->WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.238675] MACVersion=0x32900013
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.238681] CacheVal-OnOff:1, bPCIclkOff:0, WlanFunCtrl:0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.238690] ==> RTMPWlan 1, bPCIclkOff = 0, pAd->WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000120
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.238692] ==> RTMPWlan 1, bPCIclkOff = 0, WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000121
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.238978] <== RTMPWlan 1 bPCIclkOff = 0 pAd->WlanFunCtrl.word = 0xff000123
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.238990] PllCtrl:0x2695555
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240326] RX DESC ffff880036c48000 size = 2048
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240680] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc90005862d60!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240683] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc90005862dd0!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240685] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc90005862e40!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240687] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc90005862cf0!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240690] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc90005862ba0!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240692] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc90005862c10!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240694] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000582cd20!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240696] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000582cd90!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240698] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000582cc38!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240700] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000581bb30!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240702] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000581bba8!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240705] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000582cb58!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.240708] RTMP_TimerListAdd: add timer obj ffffc9000582ce20!
Dec 4 19:10:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 520.242720] BBP_R105: BBPR105.field.EnableSIGRemodulation = 1, BBPR105.field.MLDFor2Stream = 0

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[Josue Soto (josue-soto1)]

I had this issue in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Bluetooth is not detected.WIFI works fine.
I had tried a lot of solutions from forums but I had no lucky. Seems that for Kernel 3.8 is not an available driver for this Ralink RT3290 Blueetooth/Wifi Card.

Cannot compile it.
cp rtbth.ko ~/bluetooth cd ..errror rtbth.ko file does not exist...

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[kudryk (sergiy-kudryk)]

I have the same issue with Ralink rt3690 wifi adapter.

For me the only way to get it worked without connection loss or kernel panic is
 to downgrade kernel to 3.2.0-24 and compile driver provider by Ralink
 (DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508) .

In addition to default settings i turned on next settings:

HAS_BLOCK_NET_IF, HAS_KTHREAD_SUPPORT,
HAS_TSSI_ANTENNA_VARIATION, HAS_RFKILL_HW_SUPPORT

So here is activated settings in my config:

cat os/linux/config.mk | grep ^HAS | grep y

HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
HAS_BLOCK_NET_IF=y
HAS_DOT11N_DRAFT3_SUPPORT=y
HAS_DOT11_N_SUPPORT=y
HAS_KTHREAD_SUPPORT=y
HAS_STATS_COUNT=y
HAS_TSSI_ANTENNA_VARIATION=y
HAS_RFKILL_HW_SUPPORT=y
HAS_OSABL_FUNC_SUPPORT=y
HAS_OSABL_OS_PCI_SUPPORT=y
HAS_OSABL_OS_USB_SUPPORT=y
HAS_OSABL_OS_AP_SUPPORT=y
HAS_OSABL_OS_STA_SUPPORT=y
HAS_LED_CONTROL_SUPPORT=y

My hardware (Asus X501U notebook):

 lspci -k | tail -n 5

07:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
        Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e055
        Kernel driver in use: rt2860
07:00.1 Bluetooth: Ralink corp. RT3290 Bluetooth
        Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e056

My OS: Kubuntu 13.10 with kernel downgraded to 3.2.0-24 (all other kernels i tested:
 3.11.0-7, 3.5.0-40, 3.9.0-7 are not work properly with serialmonkey's/Ralink's drivers .. this is really sad).

As far as i can see there 2 ways to fix this issue:
fix drivers from serialmonkeys project to prevent connection loss or fix Ralink driver somehow to compile
it with modern kernel and prevent kernel panics (removing old kernel macros from pci_main_dev.c is not enough).

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pnelnik, could you please confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

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[stefano callegari (ary-arale)]

Someone knows if this is the same problem I have here?

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/238424

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