Ralink 5390 wifi card in Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

**chili555** · August 31st, 2011

user@user-dm1z-u:~/Downloads$ ls
2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL
2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL .bz2

Ahhh! I had to download it again to figure this out! The file I highlighted above is also a .tar archive that needs to be extracted. Right click it and select Extract Here. Now check os/linux/config.mk and be sure to change:

** Build for being controlled by NetworkManager or wpa_supplicant wext functions
Please set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y'.

Save and close the text editor.

Now you can do:

Code:

cd Downloads/2011*
etc., etc.

**effay** · August 31st, 2011

Hah!!

Went to Ralink-->Software-->Linux and downloaded the RT539xPCIe driver (which is 2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL .bz2) to home/user/Downloads. Right-clicked it and selected "Extract Here." Out pops a new file called 2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL . Right-clicked that file and selected "Extract Here." Out pops another new file. Opened os/linux/config.mk in that file (i.e., the file produced by the second extraction) and set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y'. Saved and closed config.mk.

Then opened terminal and did the following:

Code:

cd Downloads/2011*
sudo su
make
make install
modprobe rt5390sta
exit

And...success!!!! Many thanks chili!!

Oh, and, for the record, this was on a HP dm1z.

**JoshuaRL** · September 21st, 2011

I've got a new DM1 I'd like to get wireless running on. I saw that a newer kernel has support baked in. Has that kernel hit the main update channel, or is this compiling still necessary?

**chili555** · September 21st, 2011

Has that kernel hit the main update channel,

Not as of the version of 2.6.38-11 that hit today so, unless you are running a beta of Ubuntu 11.10, compiling is still necessary.

**wahwahwah** · September 22nd, 2011

Hi,

I've been following the steps from post 58 - I had the same problem as effay, as it said the file or directory didn't exist when it did. I extracted twice and made the appropriate changes, but when I tried running the commands in Terminal, this happened:

Code:

user@ubuntu:~$ cd Downloads/2011*
user@ubuntu:~/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL$ 
user@ubuntu:~/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL$ sudo su
[sudo] password for user: 
root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL# modprobe rf5390sta
FATAL: Module rf5390sta not found.
root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO_GPL# exit
exit

The files are in my downloads file, too... It's probably something quite simple but can anyone help me out please?

**Wild Man** · September 22nd, 2011

Hi, I answered in the other post.
Thank you

**Crazycraka208** · September 27th, 2011

Tried everything to get this to work....and nothing. Finally found a solution.

Updated Kernel to 3.0 here:
http://www.khattam.info/howto-instal...011-06-03.html

everything works perfect. the wifi led light blinks to show connectivity but works.

**taichadow** · April 28th, 2012

Originally Posted by theDunkel

i've follow it step by step, but i get errors:

Code:

make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/build'
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

I followed this guide and it worked perfectly with the exception of this^ if you've install linux-headers-$(uname -r) and build-essential and you still get this you have to change the Makefile

go to line 173 and replace

Code:

LINUX_SRC = /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build

with

Code:

LINUX_SRC = /usr/src/linux-headers-$(shell uname -r)

this worked using ubuntu 10.04.3 with the 2.6.32.40 kernel on an HP Pavillion dv6 laptop

as a side note, every single thread I found while trying to fix this had chili555 posting on it trying to help. pretty damn impressive.

**chili555** · April 28th, 2012

as a side note, every single thread I found while trying to fix this had chili555 posting on it trying to help. pretty damn impressive.

Somebody needs to get a real life!

**roman5566** · December 8th, 2012

i am using a ubuntu11.04 64bits and for whatever reason when i switch os's i have a problem with video and with the ralink wireless wifi card.

b.t.w. i'm using an HP model: p7-1054 with ralink rt5390