Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support

[Anthony Wong]

RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw.

commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563
Author: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800

    rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4

    This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in rt2x00.
    It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase.
    And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different efuse data offset of rt3290.

    Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <email address hidden>

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

I see that commit is included in v3.6-rc1. Do you happen to know if a request will be made to have the commit included in upstream linux-stable?

[Denis Kurochkin (d-k-brazz)]

I also have notebook with RT3290 wifi chip
how I can help, that the patch has been included in quantal as soon as possible?

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

Hi dkBrazz,

I think in Quantal the support will be provided by linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6. If you want to help testing, can you enable -proposed repository by following the instructions in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed, and then install the package linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic (open a terminal, then type 'sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic').

[Geoff Kelsall (q5sc)]

I am on 12.10 but am having trouble with the above test.

I enabled the repository
(to enable -proposed you need to go to System Settings not as described in the link above)
but then:

geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic
[sudo] password for geoff:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic'
geoff@geoff-laptop:~$

Can anyone advise?

Regards

Geoff

[Geoff Kelsall (q5sc)]

geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ dmesg|grep rt2
[ 2.002349] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::radio
[ 2.002396] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::assoc
[ 2.002440] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::quality
[ 2.212123] phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
geoff@geoff-laptop:~$

I do not understand why it has failed to request firmware.

Regards

Geoff

[Denis Kurochkin (d-k-brazz)]

Hi, Anthony

After installing linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic wireless still not working, also stopped working ethernet controller.

here is my hardware info:

dkbrazz@hp:~$ sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|brcm|CX|eth|ipw|ireless|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt5|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl';sudo dmidecode|egrep 'anufact|roduct|erial|elease'; iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|brcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|wmi|witch|wl'; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; ps -aux|egrep 'wpa|icd|etwork'; sudo lsmod
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Ralink corp.
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:d0610000-d061ffff
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: 07
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0404000-d0404fff memory:d0400000-d0403fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: usb0
       serial: 52:36:1e:59:de:c7
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rndis_host driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=RNDIS device ip=192.168.42.162 link=yes multicast=yes
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

usb0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604...

[Denis Kurochkin (d-k-brazz)]

There is temporary workaround:

Install kernell 3.6.x from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline:

linux-headers-3.6.6-030606-generic_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_amd64.deb
linux-headers-3.6.6-030606_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_all.deb
linux-image-3.6.6-030606-generic_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_amd64.deb
linux-image-extra-3.6.6-030606-generic_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_amd64.deb

Then download firmware from kernel.org:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
sudo cp linux-firmware/rt3290.bin /lib/firmware

reboot

But I hope that sometime this driver will be backported to 12.10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sean Feole (sfeole)]

Confirmed that the workaround steps in Comment #8 work, I was able to get a HP Pavilion HP20 wifi back to life rt3290.

Bluetooth still appears to be offline RT3298

[Mark Jackson (mpfj)]

Steps in comment #8 also work for me (I installed kernel 3.6.9).

This is on a Novatech nFinity n1402.

[TienFu Chen (ctf)]

Also affect the system, HP 1000(Osaka 29, 201209-11735)

[Dmitriy (dmishh)]

Also affects HP 4740s notebook. But in my case step #8 solved problem until reboot and then i got "Wireless networks: device not ready" message in the connections popup window.

This is my config:

uname -a==============================================
Linux dmishh-hp 3.6.11-030611-generic #201212171335 SMP Mon Dec 17 18:36:00 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ifconfig -a==============================================
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b4:b5:2f:7d:68:c1
          inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::b6b5:2fff:fe7d:68c1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:3307 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3278098 (3.2 MB) TX bytes:497896 (497.8 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:1057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:91410 (91.4 KB) TX bytes:91410 (91.4 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:94:23:b7:45:1f
          BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

iwconfig==============================================
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

sudo lshw -C network==============================================
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Ralink corp.
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 68:94:23:b7:45:1f
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.6.11-030611-generic firmware=0.37 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:19 memory:c0610000-c061ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 07
       serial: b4:b5:2f:7d:68:c1
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       co...

[Dmitriy (dmishh)]

Oh, finally i've made wi-fi Ralink RT3290 work on HP ProBook 4740s with Ubuntu **12.04** and **3.6.11** kernel. Thanks to Denis! (see #8 post)
In Ubuntu 12.10 problem still exists.

P.S. I even tried to install Ubuntu 13.04 alpha1, but got the message "firmware is missing".

[gorostas (kresimir-pendic)]

Thank you Denis! (post #8)

I have successfully get it to work in 12.10.x64 with kernel v3.6.11!

# lspci -v_

04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 3290
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 18ec
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
 Memory at d0610000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable- 64bit+
 Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
 Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-00-23-97-79-8e-3e-08
 Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
 Kernel modules: rt2800pci

Thanks!

[Denis Kurochkin (d-k-brazz)]

I glad to see that my workaround has helped you

Has anyone faced with the low speed on 3.6.11?
I got normal speed on version 3.6.6 and earlier
All 3.6.7+ have low speed

Another problem is a signal power. It very low.
Has anyone faced this problem?

Ubuntu 12.10

[Dmitriy (dmishh)]

Denis, i had same problem with the low speed and low signal power on 3.6.11 and Ubuntu 12.04.
And after i executed "ifconfig wlan0 down" and then "ifconfig wlan0 up" - network manager started showing a message "device not ready" and i didn't know how to fix it.

After days of reinstalling OS I just give up and installed fresh 12.04 + manually compiled the driver.

[Dmitriy (dmishh)]

But with Ubuntu 12.04 and manually compiled driver i have issue when trying to shutdown/suspend, notebook automatically turns on/wakes up...

More info - http://askubuntu.com/a/236710/98557

[Daniel Georgescu (dariusgeo)]

Hi,
 I'm very new with Linux. I had the same problem ( wi-fi not recognized/working) on Ubuntu 12.10 - kernel 3.5.0-17. I followed the steps of comment #8 (Thank you, Dennis ). Now the wi-fi works fine, but after I finished the steps and reboot, with the new kernel
3.6.6 the system doesn't shut down. I press Shut Down and it restarts.
My system is a HP probook 4540s.
I installed the header files as follow :
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.6.6-030606-generic_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-extra-3.6.6-030606-generic_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.6.6-030606_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.6.6-030606-generic_3.6.6-030606.201211050512_amd64.deb

Any help is very appreciated.
Thank you.

[Denis Kurochkin (d-k-brazz)]

Daniel, I faced with same problem
It looks like wlan module wakes up computer after it shut down
If WLAN was turned off by hardware button befor shutting down, it not wakes up computer.

[Mark Jackson (mpfj)]

Daniel / Dennis

Have you tried with some of the later 3.6.x kernels available from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline ?

Or even 3.7.x ?

[Dmitriy (dmishh)]

I tried 3.7 with Ubuntu 13.04 alpha1 and got same behavior as in 12.04/12.10 with 3.6 kernel. Computer shuts down correctly, but I got low speed + low signal level and after I tried to restart adapter it didn't start with message "device not ready". (HP ProBook 4740s)

[schaefi (info-e)]

I have the same problem on an HP envy 6-1160ez. The Ralink-Device for WLAN does not work.

I fear this bug will become more and more painful for ubuntu 12.10 since HP is using Ralink 3290 in many laptops.

I am quite disappointed by ubuntu because Fedora 18 supports the Raling WLAN out-of-the-box. The proposed workaround to upgrade to kernel 3.6.x seems to work but there have been reported some bugs (bad performance) as side-effect. I would expect that ubuntu comes out with a new "official" kernel for ubuntu 12.10 that fixes this bug as soon as possible.
I propose to raise the importance of this bug from "medium" to "high".

Here some more details of my system:

uname -a
Linux xxx 3.5.0-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 21:47:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

sudo lshw -class network
...
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Ralink corp.
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:c0510000-c051ffff
...

lspci -nn
...
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:3290]
02:00.1 Bluetooth [0d11]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:3298]
...

I tried to update all drivers but still Ralink Wireless does not work.

[Rohit Khatkar (mldy)]

I tried RT3290 firmware with upgraded Linux kernel 3.7.8 on HP g6-2313AX. But it only work for few minutes like 25 minutes and then wifi got disconnected and it start aking wifi password again and again. After reboot, in network manager it says the Device Not Ready.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Y'all can try the 3.8 based kernel at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/r-lts-backport. Install the package linux-generic-lts-raring.

[David Samuels (davidmsamuels-e)]

Thanks, Tim. I'm having some difficulty getting this. I've followed the
instructions on the page for including the ppa but I can't see how to get
the package. Updater doesn't find it, nor does Software Update. Also,
linux-generic-lts-raring
is not listed on the page.

Cheers

David

On 20 February 2013 12:23, Tim Gardner <email address hidden> wrote:

> Y'all can try the 3.8 based kernel at
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/r-lts-backport. Install
> the package linux-generic-lts-raring.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1086650).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049466
>
> Title:
> Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support ELSE !
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support
> starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw.
>
> commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563
> Author: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800
>
> rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4
>
> This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in
> rt2x00.
> It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase.
> And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different
> efuse data offset of rt3290.
>
> Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <email address hidden>
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+subscriptions
>

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

from a command line prompt, enter :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/r-lts-backport
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-raring

[David Samuels (davidmsamuels-e)]

Following my last: I followed the instructions I found at
http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-linux-kernel-3-8-raring-ubuntu/2/ and,
after a second reboot, the wireless seems to work (as it did with 3.6.6)
but:

1. The wireless on/off switch doesn't function; if I unplug the ethernet
connection, the wireless connection takes over seemlessly, and
2. There's no bluetooth at all -- no adapter is found. Before, it was
toggled by the wirless switch.

Regards

David

On 20 February 2013 12:23, Tim Gardner <email address hidden> wrote:

> Y'all can try the 3.8 based kernel at
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/r-lts-backport. Install
> the package linux-generic-lts-raring.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1086650).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049466
>
> Title:
> Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support ELSE !
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support
> starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw.
>
> commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563
> Author: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800
>
> rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4
>
> This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in
> rt2x00.
> It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase.
> And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different
> efuse data offset of rt3290.
>
> Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <email address hidden>
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+subscriptions
>

[David Samuels (davidmsamuels-e)]

Thanks again, Tim. That got and installed 3.8.0.7. The position is the same
as I reported at 12.41. At least the system seems stable.

David

On 21 February 2013 12:36, Tim Gardner <email address hidden> wrote:

> from a command line prompt, enter :
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/r-lts-backport
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-raring
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1086650).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049466
>
> Title:
> Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support ELSE !
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support
> starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw.
>
> commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563
> Author: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800
>
> rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4
>
> This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in
> rt2x00.
> It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase.
> And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different
> efuse data offset of rt3290.
>
> Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <email address hidden>
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+subscriptions
>

[vit1967 (vit1967)]

update! after #27
1) Following post number #8 but for more last 3.7.2-030702-generic:

2)
cd ~/dst/drv/WiFi/DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508
sudo make
sudo make install

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
...
#Wireless drivers conflicting with rt3562sta
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2x00pci

 cat /etc/modules
.....
loop
lp
rtc
rt3290sta

...after that did not work
but after the removal "rt3290sta"(Removed this str. because I wanted to not boot and did not take as much space is useless - lsmod rt3290sta 1174321 ) ,not immediately, but after a while, maybe after a few semi-automatic updates THAT DID WORK (now see all WiFi nets and now
I'm working through Wifi.
BUT...
Even after changing the kernel to this there a glitch: after switching off the notebook button successful landing and off with blanking of all the LEDs and the screen, Ceres 5 seconds it starts again
( uname -a
Linux vn-HP-ProBook-4740s 3.7.2-030702-generic #201301111424 SMP Fri Jan 11 19:25:11 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux )
Who know how to fix it?

[Dmitriy (dmishh)]

After installing the kernel 3.8.0-9 and copying the necessary firmware, the system has stabilized and after the shutdown the notebook didn't turn on its own. Wi-fi hardware button still doesn't work.
I have the same system behavior as David (#32) does.

[Swed (sweduv-ghost)]

I tried 8 different linux image versions (containing 3.6.6, 3.8.0,etc.) but still kernel panic after opening firefox.

I did make & make install on RT3290, I copied rt3290.bin.

What em I doing wrong? When I attach cable, everything is ok.

[Swed (sweduv-ghost)]

while trying kernel 3.8.0-11-generic
after make && make install

$ sudo modprobe rt3290sta
FATAL: Error inserting rt3290sta (/lib/modules/3.8.0-11-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3290sta.ko): Invalid module format

[Albert (ishitcno1)]

Just try to install the official driver.
You can find on this website.
http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01_windows.php?sn=501

See the discussion below to get help.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850267

ubuntu12.04 ralink3290

[David Samuels (davidmsamuels-e)]

Albert:

The link to the official drivers only lists an RT3290 Windows driver for
PCIe and I'm running Quantal on an HP Pavilion dm1 which is amd64; also,
the discussion link was for RT3562 on Oneiric. As a result, I am a little
reluctant to try what may cause more trouble. As things stand, I have
wireless when needed and no bluetooth (which I don't need anyway).

On 8 March 2013 07:50, Albert <email address hidden> wrote:

> Just try to install the official driver.
> You can find on this website.
> http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01_windows.php?sn=501
>
> See the discussion below to get help.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850267
>
> ubuntu12.04 ralink3290
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1086650).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049466
>
> Title:
> Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
> Triaged
> Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support
> starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw.
>
> commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563
> Author: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800
>
> rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4
>
> This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in
> rt2x00.
> It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase.
> And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different
> efuse data offset of rt3290.
>
> Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <email address hidden>
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+subscriptions
>

[Swed (sweduv-ghost)]

Finally It works for me on HP ProBook 4340s with rt3290 !

My steps:
- I downgraded to ubuntu 12.04.
- Installed kernel 3.6.11 from #30
- make && make install DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508 - important is not to change HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT to HAS_WPA_NATIVE_SUPPLICANT
- Copied file from git #8
- And probably helped to blacklist: rt2860pci find by
 dmesg | grep rt2

I have issue with shutting down #20 and turn off wifi by hw wifi button doesn't help.

But guys, thank you a lot! I was installing it hundred times, I did hundreds of resets and hard button turn offs after kernel panic and it finally works. I will not upgrade as long as possible :-)

Noo, I was browsing for an hour without problem and after restart and turn on firefox - kernel panic.
How is this possible?

[Lonny (lonny-selinger)]

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

Kernel 3.13.0-12

I upgraded this morning hoping there would be support for the rt3290 native support but it was not there. Booted in to the 3.13 kernel I thought I'd try compiling the patched version in hopes that maybe I could get the dkms stuff working but the build fails. Here is the output from the make log:

DKMS make.log for rt3290sta-2.6.0.0 for kernel 3.13.0-12-generic (x86_64)
Thu Feb 27 10:23:51 CST 2014
make: Entering directory `/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src'
make -C tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/tools'
gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
chmod +x bin2h
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/tools'
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/tools/bin2h
cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.13.0-12-generic/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-12-generic'
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_md5.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_sha2.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_hmac.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_aes.o
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_aes.c: In function ‘AES_Key_Wrap’:
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_aes.c:1466:6: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat=]
      DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_ERROR, ("AES_Key_Wrap: allocate %d bytes memory failure.\n", sizeof(UINT8)*PlainTextLength));
      ^
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_aes.c: In function ‘AES_Key_Unwrap’:
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_aes.c:1561:6: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat=]
      DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_ERROR, ("AES_Key_Unwrap: allocate %d bytes memory failure.\n", sizeof(UINT8)*PlainLength));
      ^
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/crypt_arc4.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/mlme.o
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/include/rtmp_os.h:42:0,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/include/rtmp_comm.h:56,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/include/rt_config.h:36,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/mlme.c:30:
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/mlme.c: In function ‘MlmeResetRalinkCounters’:
/var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/src/os/linux/../../common/mlme.c:529:7: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
       (UINT32)&pAd->RalinkCounters.OneSecEnd -
       ^
/var/l...

[LinuxPanda (linuxpanda)]

Today I installed trusty tahr daily build which has firmware 3.13.0-23-generic and the bug still exists.

The network manager will

1) ask for wifi password
2) try to authenticate with the wifi modem
3) time out

and then repeat the process again from step 1.

[Coeur Noir (gerald-maruccia-e)]

I'm not sure if it's the right place to mention that, but I have exactly the same kind of problem with :

- wifi usb dongle with *ralink* rt2500usb chipset

and

- pci wifi card with *ralink* rt28xxpci

The first one has worked for me from ubuntu 08.04 till ubuntu 12.04.02 (or .03)

The second one is part of a newer pc and has never fully worked since ubuntu 12.04.02 (or .03) neither on 13.04, 13.10 and 14.04

Problems are the same for both cards : they see networks, can connect, but wifi rates are so low than it's non usable.

I have tried to compile linux-drivers provided by ralink but I'm not skilled enough and had no success. Those drivers were designed for 2.6.x kernel you can find here http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/

Also tried with ndiswrapper, not better.

[Coeur Noir (gerald-maruccia-e)]

Sorry, it's ralink rt2760pci chipset

rt2800pci is the free driver which is supposed to take care of that pci card.

[Sachin Thomas (sachinthomaspj)]

Here's a DKMS package containing patched proprietary driver for RT3290, tested and working with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on kernel 3.13.0-24:

 Install:
 --------
 1. Extract rt3290sta-2.6.0.0 directory into /usr/src
 2. Run
 sudo dkms install -m rt3290sta -v 2.6.0.0 --force
 3. Reboot

 Remove:
 -------------
If this bug is fixed in rt2800pci (highly unlikely)

 1. Run
 sudo dkms remove rt3290sta/2.6.0.0 --all
 2. Reboot

Credits:
-----------
bmlandis2010
vova7890

[Sachin Thomas (sachinthomaspj)]

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7kbO9nS2qKEMmQ5elZXVUhDRjA

[LinuxPanda (linuxpanda)]

@Sachin Thomas, Thank you very much for the patch. :)

[firesock (firesock-ml)]

Thank you very much Sachin Thomas (sachinthomaspj)

It is working fine!!

Hi!!
If you want to solve the wifi problem, go to the last post at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466

For bluetooth go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1189721

Cheers!!

[Richard Hudson (hudson-richard)]

@Sachin Thomas, thanks for the patch and particularly for packaging it in such a user-friendly fashion. It works well (with a clean 14.04 LTS installation) in that the RT3290 card is no longer slow / dropping off like with rt2800pci. Unfortunately it has also caused kernel panic on two occasions (messages about the driver not syncing).

Has anyone else had this? Does anyone have any ideas how the patch could be fixed?

All the best

Richard

[Richard Hudson (hudson-richard)]

... by the way my 14.04 LTS installation is 32-bit - no idea whether that is somehow relevant.

All the best

Richard

[Madpower (madzohan)]

@Richard Hudson haven't noticed this yet, but have some other trouble with my laptop HP probook 4540s after applying this patch - after suspend or shut down it's wake up again (0o) , (in BIOS disabled wake up on lan) how I can fix this?

[Ian Campbell (iancamp222)]

I also have this problem with my HP probook 4540s (running 12.04). I've found that it doesn't happen if I have low battery, and sometimes, restarting will result in a shutdown.

[Sergiy (voidp)]

Installed patch.
Also have trouble with automatically wake up after shut down.
Hp 450 g0.

[Madpower (madzohan)]

... at last, problem solved for 19.9$ — HP ATHEROS AR5BHB92-H AR9280 http://goo.gl/vH2Euc :o)

[Praveen Singh (prageck)]

I have a Ralink RT3290 with ubuntu 14.04. Though it might be an untrusted download, but this solution works for me: http://askubuntu.com/a/455512

[Ian Campbell (iancamp222)]

Using the driver posted by Praveen above (#187), I received frequent kernel panics. After installing Wicd and removing Network-Manager, I no longer experienced such crashes, but I frequently get disconnected as I did when using the vanilla driver. I am also still experiencing the shutdown issue: shutting down results in the system starting a few seconds after powering down, WOL is disabled in BIOS.

HW/SW:
HP Probook 4540s
Ubuntu 14.04.1 (64-bit)
3.13.0-35-generic

[giamma (giamma-t)]

Hi, I recently upgraded to ubuntu 14.10 and the solution described doesn't work in this release. When I run DKMS The output is:

"Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/source ->
                 /usr/src/rt3290sta-2.6.0.0

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
applying patch rt3290sta.patch...patching file src/include/os/rt_linux.h
patching file src/Makefile
patching file src/os/linux/config.mk
patching file src/os/linux/Makefile.6
patching file src/os/linux/Makefile.clean
patching file src/os/linux/pci_main_dev.c
patching file src/os/linux/rt_linux.c
patching file src/tools/Makefile

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=3.16.0-24-generic -C src/ LINUX_SRC=/lib/modules/3.16.0-24-generic/build...........(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR (dkms apport): binary package for rt3290sta: 2.6.0.0 not found
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/rt3290sta/2.6.0.0/build/make.log for more information."

What do you suggest me to do? If you need I can attach log

[Zip Zit (zipzit)]

I'm looking at EXACTLY the same errors as Giamma. (I'm using Ubuntu 14.10, kernel 3.16.0-024-generic) From the look of the patch file it was last updated 2014-04-17

Any ideas on how to make this work? There are lots of errors in the make.log, generally "format ... expects argument of type 'int' but ... has type 'long unsigned int' or warning cast from pointer to integer of different size, or expects argument of type 'unsigned int'... but has... type 'ULONG', etc...

Not sure who is updating the patch attached to this report but I do want to say thank you for your work.

(ref: http://www.dailylinuxnews.com/blog/2014/09/install-ralink-rt3290-wifi-driver-in-ubuntu-linuxmint-elementaryos/ )

[Zip Zit (zipzit)]

Update. I did a new virgin install of Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit, then re-ran the patch update from this site. Success. Worked fine right out of the box. But that really got me wondering..

So I wiped the drive clean and reinstalled 14.10 64bit again, then re-ran the patch update. Sure enough, with a virgin 14.10 64bit install I get the bad exit status: 2 ERROR again.

so I'm going back to 14.04

[giamma (giamma-t)]

If that is the only solution to make this work properly I think I'll switch back too

[Jim (jim-colaco)]

Hi,

Giamma and zipzit

I too had the same problem, it was a fault with the date and time macros. In the source that sachin thomas provided all I did was open the file sta_cfg.c in rt3290sta-2.6.0.0/src/sta and in line 4899 delete <__DATE__, __TIME__ >. After this it installed perfectly however the connection keeps going off every 5 mins or so. Any idea why it happens? I dont wanna go through all that source code :(

[sameer (sameerkillamsetty)]

thanks to denis.. 8th one worked perfectly to my hp pavilion 15 with elementary os.

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

See algo the bug #1189721

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

In really I don't know if this bug affects me. The wifi signal looks very poor... is this a symptom?

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

after moving to new kernel 4.2.0 trying to solve the problem in bug #1474898
my wifi using Ralink RT3290 is very unstable, the wifi signal looks very poor, the wifi connections stops and sometimes I can restrart with enable wifi, sometimes I can restart it only rebooting.

corrado@corrado-wily:~$ uname -a
Linux corrado-wily 4.2.0-040200rc2-generic #201507121935 SMP Sun Jul 12 23:36:39 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

some lines from: sudo lspci -v

09:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at b2510000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable- 64bit+
 Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
 Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-00-5d-03-82-b8-d1-ac
 Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci

[Ashish Kotnala (ashishkotnala1-ak)]

PLEASE help me.
I have Ubuntu 14.04.3 installed (kernel 3.19) and could not even get WiFi to work properly on this shitty card. Stock driver rt2800pci has very poor performance (very low signal and speed). I have tried installing and uninstalling ALL dkms packages from here but no success. WiFi disconnects very frequently and does not connect back again until reboot though when working for a few minutes works great.
Please help me and provide with a latest patch for WiFi support for RT3290 on Ubuntu 14.04 (kernel 3.19) or Linux Mint 17.2 (Kernel 3.16).

If anyone could also help me with Bluetooth that would be great. I tried patch by Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm) by building .deb using Checkinstall but it failed pairing phones.

Here is the patch in bluetooth bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1189721/comments/144

[Høst (helvete)]

@ashishkotnala1-ak

I'd help you, but I gave up a long time ago trying to make bluetooth work. It's really a shame that this bug is almost 3 years old and it still exists. If you still want to give it a shot, the last ubuntu version on which bluetooth works is 13.10.

For wifi, you can see this thread, there's a package which works flawlessly in Ubuntu 14.04 (I've not tested it on later versions though):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466

The card in itself isn't shit as you say, because in Windoze everything is ok. Poor is the support from the Ubuntu team, they're releasing unstable versions of Ubuntu where a lot of bugs are still present, and they don't even make what's already there more stable. That sucks. I must agree, yeah, all the Linux stuff is cool, but the support for specific hardware is by far worse than in any Windoze version. I would fix this is I knew enough about low level C, but meh.

[Aline Freitas (aline-o)]

At the moment I'm running Gentoo and I have working rt3290 wifi and bluetooth support. These drivers are originally from ralinktech.com so I'm talking about the same rt3290sta. For bluetooth support I've build rtbth with some minor changes in order to support recent kernels. My kernel is 4.1.15 so it should work with recent ubuntu releases.

rt3290 (it should be the same from this thread, two years old, but still works for me, as is):
https://github.com/pkeeper/rt3290sta

rtbth (it has dkms.conf so to build it in Ubuntu should be straight forward):
https://github.com/alinefr/rtbth

I'm still waiting for upstream support so we wouldn't need to rely on old manufacturer buggy drivers but for now it does the trick.

[Ivo Sieben (ivo-sieben)]

@aline-o :

Thank you so much... WIFI is now also up & running on my Ubuntu studio laptop (4.2.0 kernel). I was waiting for that driver for quite some time... I was surprised to see that the fix was already available for 2 years on github. Thanks for pointing that out on this thread.

The rtbth also got me a bit further but: I now see the bluetooth icon apear on the system tray. But unfortunately didn't manage to peer with my smartphone... ("no adapters found"). Not a big problem for me now: I'm already glad to see WIFI working.

Any idea what it takes to get the WIFI driver into kernel mainline?

[Høst (helvete)]

Just updated to Ubuntu 16.04, and wifi works pretty well. I'm even getting 54-52Mb/s speeds so it's indeed connecting in the 802.11n band. Can anyone confirm that it's fixed?

Bluetooth still buggy tho

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

was working fine on Ubuntu 16.04 and also on 16.10 before last updates. After last updates on 16.10 the wifi dropdown menu is empty. no way to connect. i'm writing from 16.04, i will go back to 16.10 to prepare some doc. I have 16.04 and 16.10 on different partitions of same laptop HP250. If i start with 16.10 i see no wifi; then if i do restart and reboot on 16.04 i still have no wifi. to have wifi i must shutdown-poweroff and restart with 16.04 or 14.04.
Please specify what doc is needed.

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

Høst, maybe the manufacturer needs to talk with the Ubuntu team, give them sufficient information about their hardware! Note that Dell notebooks are very much compatibles.

corrado venturini, try rebuild it.

My last message about it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bluetooth/+bug/1189721/comments/191

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

after today updates the wifi works again. thanks.

[Adam Łangowicz_0 (adam-langowicz)]

All about the firmware. On Linuxmint 17.3 it's locate in firmware directory on
/lib/firmware/ and file is rt3290.bin - but firmware is not an kernel module...
in fact several kernel in system use for that, then wlan (wifi) may work.

In case hybrid (wlan|bluetooth) card the firmware must fit to version of the hardware.
So If version of the hardware is different then firmware located in rt3290.bin must by lite differentia. So we have one question, how manny version of hybrid card Ralink (Mediatek)
created?

[giardia (fabriziosm)]

Il 24/06/2016 14:12, Adam Łangowicz_0 ha scritto:
> So we have one question, how manny version of hybrid card Ralink (Mediatek)
> created?
Mine hybrid shows like this with lshw:
           *-network
                 description: Wireless interface
                 product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
                 vendor: Ralink corp.
                 physical id: 0
                 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                 logical name: wlan0
                 version: 00
                 serial:
                 width: 32 bits
                 clock: 33MHz
                 capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
ethernet physical wireless
                 configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci
driverversion=3.2.0-55-generic firmware=0.37 ip= latency=0 link=yes
multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

            *-generic
                 description: Bluetooth
                 product: RT3290 Bluetooth
                 vendor: Ralink corp.
                 physical id: 0.1
                 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.1
                 version: 00
                 width: 32 bits
                 clock: 33MHz
                 capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
                 configuration: driver=rtbt latency=0

[Shankey (shankeybisht3)]

The bug still exists in Ubuntu 16.04. The rt3290 card is disabled by default and the Rfkill output shows "hardware blocked"..which isn't blocked at all whenever i try to enable it doesn't work. None of the solutions worked on ubuntu 16.04.

Sadly i reverted to Linux mint with 3.16 kernel because i don't have any option left.

[daniel phillips (danielphillips50)]

RalinkRt3290 wifi broken after upgrade to kernel 4.4.0.36 Xenial 16.04 LTS. Network -manager reports device not ready.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

@Shankey or @daniel philips,

Would it be possible for you to open a new bug? There have been many comments in this bug report. Having a new bug will allow for easier tracking. It sounds like this is a regression, so we should be able to perform a bisect with the new bug report and identify the commit that introduced this regression.

[Shankey (shankeybisht3)]

@joseph - i have already reported the new Bug...but still no response from developers...you can check bug report from below link

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1577140

The bug still exists