Persisting Ralink 5392 Wireless driver issues

Hello Ubuntu Community,

I am using Ubuntu 12.10.

I was able to download and unzip: 2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO

The file is sitting on my desktop.

I did:

cd 2011*
emacs -nw os/linux/config.mk

I have changed the lines to look like this:

# Support Wpa_Supplicant
# i.e. wpa_supplicant -Dralink
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y


# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
# i.e. wpa_supplicant -Dwext
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

I closed and saved. Then I tried:

sudo su
make

This was the error I got:

root@SJ:/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO# make
make -C tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools/bin2h
cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-18-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-18-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

I understand that there is no directory there, but I dont imagine that is truly the source of the problem.

Can someone help please?

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but I dont imagine that is truly the source of the problem.

Can someone help please?

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Oh, yes, indeed, it is! It's clear evidence you don't have the prerequisites installed. With an ethernet connection, please do:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

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Then try again:

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make
sudo make install

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Originally Posted by chili555

Oh, yes, indeed, it is! It's clear evidence you don't have the prerequisites installed. With an ethernet connection, please do:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

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Then try again:

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make
sudo make install

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Should I then try modprobe rt5390sta? Or would a simple restart suffice?

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Originally Posted by jgomez2

Should I then try modprobe rt5390sta?

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Yes, please.

Ok so i did

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sudo modprobe rt5390sta

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It is now up and running. Is there anything you suggest to do in order to make this a permanent fix? When I had 12.04 my WLAN would work until I would download a new release (or patch or whatever the term is) and then I would have to do the steps all over again. If no, thank you for your time and prompt replies.

When a new kernel version, also known as linux-image, is installed by Update Manager, you will need to recompile for the later kernel version:

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cd Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rt5390sta

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Glad it's working!

jgomez2@SJ:~/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO$ make
make -C tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools/bin2h
cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2
jgomez2@SJ:~/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO$ sudo make
make -C tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools/bin2h
cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/jgomez2/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2


it appears to be a similar problem as before with the missing directory...

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it appears to be a similar problem as before with the missing directory...

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Yes, indeed, and the fix is the same:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

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jgomez2@SJ:~/Desktop/2011_1007_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
[sudo] password for jgomez2:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libjasper1:i386 libjbig0:i386 libjpeg-turbo8:i386 libjpeg8:i386 linux-headers-3.5.0-17
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


I then tried make with and got the same error. :(

Please reboot. Next, post:

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lsb_release -a
uname -a
arch
sudo dpkg -s linux-headers-`uname -r`

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