MSI WInd U210 AMD Ralink WiFi Card HELP!!!

[pikapika2501]

Question, Is there a possibility or is it a "yes" answer that MSI Wind U210's wireless NIC and other peripherals will work automatically after installing ubuntu OS within its future release?

[omniuni]

The card will work automatically once the Kernel is updated to 2.6.32 and above, so future distributions will work out of the box. For Karmic, we are working on creating a PPA to support the card. So far, we have unecrypted and WEP encrypted wireless working. On Ubuntu Jaunty, the package works just fine with all wireless, and everything works pretty much out of the box after installing the driver package.

[Odemia]

Agree with omniuni, and here is some proof it is not just us saying it:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NzUxOQ

Also the PPA works for Karmic as well as Jaunty. Also appears to work for both 32 and 64 bit. Wpa support is the only draw back currently.

[mic2damgood]

Somebody please help me.. I got ubuntu 9.x.x and i can't get my wireless to work at all. I think the drivers for the ralink rt3090 ethernet wifi card are not there. I went to ralink website and they have the drivers there but i don't know how to install them.
Please i'm new to linux and i am gonna need step by step instructions on how to get these drive installed and my wifi working. If anybody have any questions about my problem my email is mic2damgood@hotmail.com

[omniuni]

Just use the driver here:

https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090

As of about 18 hours ago, the PPA was updated and now supports WPA.

[mic2damgood]

Just use the driver here:

https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090

As of about 18 hours ago, the PPA was updated and now supports WPA.

how do you do it. step by step instructions please

[omniuni]

1. Open a text editor as root:

KDE, Run:

kdesudo kate

Gnome or XFCE, Run:

gksu gedit

2. Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add to the end of it:

#RaLink Driver
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

Of course, replace YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE with "jaunty" or "karmic" etc.

3. From a terminal, run:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 86F4C28E

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rt3090-dkms

4. You will need to reboot your computer.

Let me know how that works for you.

[mic2damgood]

1. Open a text editor as root:

KDE, Run:

kdesudo kate

Gnome or XFCE, Run:

gksu gedit

2. Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add to the end of it:

#RaLink Driver
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

Of course, replace YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE with "jaunty" or "karmic" etc.

3. From a terminal, run:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 86F4C28E

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rt3090-dkms

4. You will need to reboot your computer.

Let me know how that works for you.

thanks i'll let you know

[mic2damgood]

i didn't work it gave me the error
: Malformed line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
mickey-nb@mickey-nb:~$ sudo apt-get install rt3090-dkms
E: Malformed line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
i copied web addrees i'm using the Karmic Koala verision how do i enter in the ubuntu verison?

[mic2damgood]

here is what the source list look like after i put it in :
#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release i386 (20091028.5)]/ karmic main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse
#RaLink Driver
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/karmic main

is this right?