Ralink rt3290 No Support & WiFi Switch Broke

[MM]

Hi I have an HP Envy dv4-5243cl

I'm trying to get this to work in Mint 14 x86 Cinnamon. I see Mint is using the 3.5x kernel, it's my understanding this driver needs at least 3.8x or 3.9x for the support.

For me the problem is also not the driver support in the kernel, to me I'm having more like an ACPI/Bios issue on bootup and the F12 key that is assigned to the WiFi.

My Envy assigns the F12 as the WiFi switch, I think this is common in all the Eny line of laptops.

For a distro that has the latest 3.8x or 3.9x kernel this will work , but if I reboot the wifi does not work unless I press the F12 at the Grub menu then reboot, or if I shut down the pc then turn it back on it works this way also.

lspci always shows the device too.

The F12 also does not work under Mint, red color= off white color= on and in Mint it's always red.

lspci always shows the device

rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

ifconfig does not show the wlan0, but iwconfig does...

I hope Mint will start supporting this driver In the HP Envy line of laptops and figure out a way to make the wifi work on reboot without having to press the F12 first, or shutting off the computer and turning it back on, as well as making the F12 key work under Mint.

THANKS

[Ivo Sieben (meltedpianoman)]

I have a partially the same problem with my HP Pavilion 15-b101sd:
F12 key doesn't work, color is always red. But WIFI is working fine, even after a reboot
Would be nice if the F12 key could work

I run Ubuntu 13.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Almost 10 years have passed without comment so closing.