I have an HP Envy 15 with the RT3290 from ralink. It had Win8 on it which I have completely removed and installed ubuntu 16.04 on it.
I have been trying to get the wireless to work and haven't been able to.
No matter what my wifi interface doesn't show a MAC address at all and I can't bring it up.
Code:
rename6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
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)
Interrupt:17
I have followed these two guides here:
How do I get a Ralink RT3290 wireless card working?
Wifi Ralink does not work on Ubuntu 16.04
In short, they say that because my wireless card is from ralink, I have to download the driver source code, compile it, and install the resulting kernel module and disable the conflicting drivers.
So I have compiled the source code for kernel module rt3290sta, generated the module and it is installed. I also added the module in /etc/module file so it will launch at boot. lsmod shows it there:
Code:
:/usr/src$ lsmod | grep rt
rt3290sta 1155072 0
:/usr/src$ lspci
08:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
08:00.1 Bluetooth: Ralink corp. RT3290 Bluetooth
..with -n
08:00.0 0280: 1814:3290
08:00.1 0d11: 1814:3298
but ifconfig still shows this:
Code:
rename6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
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)
Interrupt:17
:/usr/src$ ifup rename6
Unknown interface rename6
:~/Downloads/RT3290_Linux_v2600$ iwpriv
virbr0-nic no private ioctls.
rename6 Available private ioctls :
set (8BE2) : set 1024 char & get 0
connStatus (0004) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
driverVer (0005) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
bainfo (0006) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
descinfo (0007) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
radio_off (000A) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
radio_on (000B) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
show (0015) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
adhocEntry (0016) : set 1024 char & get 2047 char
bbp (8BE3) : set 2047 char & get 2047 char
mac (8BE5) : set 1024 char & get 1024 char
rf (8BF3) : set 2047 char & get 2047 char
e2p (8BE7) : set 1024 char & get 1024 char
stat (8BE9) : set 0 & get 2047 char
get_site_survey (8BED) : set 0 & get 1024 char
virbr0 no private ioctls.
eno1 no private ioctls.
lo no private ioctls.
lspci -v output:
08:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
DeviceName: Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Ada
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 17
Memory at 61510000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rt2860
Kernel modules: rt2800pci, rt3290sta
The above lspci -v would seem to show that I have two kernel modules for this device, so I ran modprobe to remove rt2800pci and did lsmod to confirm it is gone. but when I ran lspci -v again it still shows.
I also searched for the kernel and rt3290sta.ko is present:
Code:
:/lib/modules/4.4.0-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless$ ls
adm8211.ko ath b43 hostap libertas mwifiex ray_cs.ko rt2x00 zd1201.ko
airo_cs.ko atmel_cs.ko b43legacy ipw2x00 libertas_tf mwl8k.ko realtek rt3290sta.ko
davy@davy-envy:/lib/modules/4.4.0-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ralink.conf
#Wireless drivers conflicting with rt3290sta
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2860
I tried rebooting, and to search in /var/log/messages and dmesg, both files are empty, not messages. So I greped the whole /var/log folder for anything rt3290 but I got nothing.
So now I am out of ideas.
Thanks for any ideas you guys might have, and thanks for reading this long ass post. I posted this on askubuntu too but haven't heard a thing since.
