[SOLVED] Ralink RT3090 Chipset driver

[Breathewave]

This is my first thread ever in this forum, but I use Kubuntu quite a while on several Computers.

I recently bought a netbook (Lenovo S205 with FreeDOS) and installed Kubuntu on this machine (11.04 - 64bit). Everything works fine except the wireless lan chipset.

It's a Ralink RT3090 chipset and the driver files can be obtained here : http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

Markus Heberling created these driver packages : https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090

Building a module from scratch wasn't succesful for me as well as the installation of Markus Heberling's deb-packages, so please help me building this module so that the wireless network connection can be used.

I'll post more hardware information later since I currently have to use Windows XP because of this issue.
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Update:

I finally fixed it with the rt2860sta module from the current 11.04 release of Kubuntu.

lspci -vv :

090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
Subsystem: Lenovo Device f101
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at 50100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rt2860
Kernel modules: rt2860sta, rt2800pci

According to http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/...d.php?t=393400 the solution is pretty simple. All you have to do is blacklist a couple of modules and your're done. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf with root privileges and add the following lines at the end of this file:

blacklist acer_wmi
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2x00usb

I do not use the kde-network-manager because I like wicd and this driver perfectly works with the current wicd release.

[perspectoff]

Re: [SOLVED] Ralink RT3090 Chipset driver

I've never gotten Network Manager to work reliably (and the problem persists into Natty).

I installed Wicd-kde (which is now integrated into System Settings once it is installed) and removed Network Manager (3 modules, including nm-framework).

I've never had problems with Wicd.

Then I use Kvpnc if I need to make VPN connections.

Some day the Kubuntu MOTU will make Wicd the default. It's been 3 versions (at least) that this problem has persisted.

[andre_orwell]

Re: [SOLVED] Ralink RT3090 Chipset driver

Thanks for the lead on this... I've been unable to get my wifi (rt2860) to reconnect after suspend-resume. I've jumped through all the hoops with trying to fix the drivers but had not considered going back to wicd. It is indeed a shame if network-manager is still not as capable :-(

Apart from wifi I was quite enjoying the new release.