No Wireless on Ubuntu 10.10

[chili555]

I tried the method. It does not work for me.

I see the RT5390 driver in the 'add new drivers window' is active and in use.
Network-manager shows wireless network is disabled (though it is enabled).
ifconfig does not wireless details.
iwconfig shows wlan0 and details.

Please post:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
rfkill list all

Thanks.

[seebs]

I followed the instructions, including applying the patches from the SuSE version. Driver builds okay. Comes up totally dead and not working.

# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results
# rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

On modprobe rt5390sta, I get a bunch of error messages in dmesg:

# dmesg
[...]
[ 2571.584670] rt5390 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 2571.585245] <-- RTMPAllocAdapterBlock, Status=0
[ 2571.611602] KH: Use High Memory for Beacon
[ 2571.615789] <-- RTMPAllocTxRxRingMemory, Status=0
[ 2571.621606] ERROR!!! RTMPReadParametersHook failed, Status[=0x00000001]
[ 2571.629104] KH: Use High Memory for Beacon
[ 2571.632907] <-- RTMPAllocTxRxRingMemory, Status=0
[ 2571.636397] ERROR!!! RTMPReadParametersHook failed, Status[=0x00000001]

Under 10.x I was able to get the device to come up, as I recall. I am using 11.x because I have slightly better luck getting the clickpad on my hp dm1 to ALMOST work there.

[seebs]

UTSL reveals: It's failing to read a config file. Another thread had instructions which referred to a file named RT5390STA.dat. Sure enough, the driver source installed one named RTA2860STA.dat, installed in a similarly-named directory. Created the right directory, copied the file from a modified archive into that directory, reprobed the driver, and it comes up.

[winchendonsprings]

Worked for me as well.

Also I included - rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-gcc-warnings-x86_64.patch

Thanks a lot. Especially @chili555

Do you think that this driver will be included by default soon?

[Psychs]

Please post:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
rfkill list all

Thanks.

Here are the results

$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     No scan results

$ rfkill list all
1: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no

One more thing to note is that the network-manager now says - wireless networks disconnected.

[chili555]

Here are the results

$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     No scan results

$ rfkill list all
1: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no

One more thing to note is that the network-manager now says - wireless networks disconnected.

Let's have a look at:

dmesg | grep 539

Thanks.

[Psychs]

Let's have a look at:

dmesg | grep 539

Thanks.

dmesg | grep 539
[    0.312223] pci 0000:02:00.0: [1814:539f] type 0 class 0x000280
[    1.305391] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
[    1.305398] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[   10.005111] rt5390 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   10.005190] rt5390 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   14.691539] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:17ff4000, size:c000

[gilnear]

I know this is two weeks old but I'd like to thank chili555 and seebs for all their hard work on this!

I have an HP DM1Z running Ubuntu 11.04. I had the same problems as others here: The drivers wouldn't compile until I applied the patches, then the card seemed unusable (iwconfig showed the device but nothing else would), and then I read seebs's post.. The RT5390STA.dat file was missing!

The final steps that worked for me:

cd /etc/Wireless
sudo su
mkdir RT5390STA
cp RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat RT5390STA/RT5390STA.dat
rmmod RT5390STA
modprobe RT5390STA
exit

[Psychs]

I know this is two weeks old but I'd like to thank chili555 and seebs for all their hard work on this!

I have an HP DM1Z running Ubuntu 11.04. I had the same problems as others here: The drivers wouldn't compile until I applied the patches, then the card seemed unusable (iwconfig showed the device but nothing else would), and then I read seebs's post.. The RT5390STA.dat file was missing!

The final steps that worked for me:

cd /etc/Wireless
sudo su
mkdir RT5390STA
cp RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat RT5390STA/RT5390STA.dat
rmmod RT5390STA
modprobe RT5390STA
exit

Thanks gilnear. Actually chilli555's post #24 has all the points that you have mentioned. I had done exactly what he has mentioned there. But even then wi-fi did not work.

Later I made the change in the config.mk file as mentioned in the following post by akshay.guleria@gmail.com :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1645716

• HAS_ANTENNA_DIVERSITY_SUPPORT=y originally was n -- this was the only thing I modified)

After this I followed the instructions given in post #24.
Rebooted the computer and life is good now.

Thanks.

[Tulip]

I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...0&postcount=70

I tried it, albeit a bit modified, and it got me, on my Natty system, from errored out to warnings but installs and modprobes without error. I don't have the device, so I don't know if it works properly. Let's try it. Go here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/f...ver%3Awireless

Download all the patches except the x64_86 patch (I assume you have installed a 32-bit system). Move them to your 2010_1216_RT5390_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.4_WiFiBTCombo_DPO folder. Now, in a terminal, do:

patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-config.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-convert-devicename-to-wlanX.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-reduce_debug_output.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-remove-potential-conflicts-with-rt2860sta.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-return_nonvoid_function.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-WPA-mixed.patch 
sudo su 
cp RT2860STA.dat RT5390STA.dat
mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT5390STA
cp RT5390STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT5390STA
make clean
make
make install
modprobe rt5390sta
exit

Post back any errors or if you get stuck.

Fingers crossed!

I can confirm this works on an Asus K73E and 11.04. Thank you for the help.