Comment 136 for bug 541620

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Linuxexperte (andrea-koeth) wrote :

No MMlosh,
as I stated at the beginning of my posting, this comment was meant for Joshua.

Then it seems, that one can only get this rt3090 wifi-card running, if the other drivers are unloaded from the Kernel and blacklisted. I di so for my Notebook and since then, the rt2860sta-driver works fine for me. The rt2800pci-driver does not work properly.

@ MMlosh: if you do not have this driver present in your kernel, then try the following command in your terminal:

sudo modprobe rt2860sta

Does this work?? And is this driver loaded into the Kernel-modules then? If so, then unload your current driver by this command:

sudo modprobe -rf rt2800pci

Then unload the other present drivers by this command:

sudo modprobe -rf <driver-name>

Then blacklist thert2800pci-driver by this command:

echo blacklist rt2800pci | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and do so for the other present drivers (except the rt2860sta!!) too.

Then restart your network-manager by this command:

sudo service network-manager restart.

Then reboot your machine and then go to network-settings and set your network-connection. After having done that, go back to your panel and click on the network-manager icon. Then you will be prompted to put in your netowork-key and then connection should be established.

@ giddyup: it seems that my network is an 802.11b/g. But where can I find that out?? Can I see that anywhere on my router??

Then if you need an instruction, how to get it work, then follow my Tutorial, which can be found here:

http://www.linuxmint-forum.de/rt3090-wlan-chip-in-linuxmint-ubuntu-ubuntu-derivaten-knoppix-und-parsix-zum-laufen-bringen-tutorials-howtos/allgemeines-f5/t1671-f11/

But I would be happy, if the driver, which is also used in the OpenSuse-version would be ported to ubuntu. In the current OpenSuse-version, this card runs out-of-the-box because the rt3090-driver is already in the kernel and there this problem does not occure. But I personally prefer LinuxMint (which I use since some time already).

Greetings
Linuxexperte