raLink rt3090 wireless support

**Sven6210** · May 10th, 2011

You can have a look on my how-to at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=RT3090

It also works for the RaLink RT3090, you just need to replace the "RT2860" with "RT3090".

Disadvantage of this procedure:

You need to recompile the driver each time you make a major kernel-update. The backports I have tried so far did not work very well

Advantage of this procedure:

On my EeeBox B202 and my friends EeePC 1015 P it works very well and reliable

The manual should also work for newer releases of Ubuntu, I am still running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my systems.

Good luck

Sven

**mikaelcrocker** · September 10th, 2011

This worked like a charm for me, found it online. Hope it makes a few less head aches

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dkms rt3090-dkms

**cirelosborn** · October 15th, 2011

This also solved the ubuntu 11.10 wireless problem. Thanks alot!

**japetko** · January 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by Muhammad Takdir

i'm using lucid and got the same problem

i think you must try this packages
https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/+files/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb

it's work for me.

Worked for me too!!!

Thanks.

**hackeron** · March 17th, 2012

No go

root@FitPC4:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Ralink 3090 driver
Driver for the Raling 3090 card from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Hom...ort/Linux.html packaged as .deb.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.Ckze2jscKJ --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv 3EE3FD4E1D44163ED06755BAFF370EF786F4C28E
gpg: requesting key 86F4C28E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 86F4C28E: "Launchpad PPA for Markus Heberling" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
root@FitPC4:~# sudo apt-get update
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W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tiso...source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tiso...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

**hackeron** · March 17th, 2012

Also, I tried compiling manually, I now see a ra0 interface but...

Code:

root@FitPC4:~# iwconfig ra0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device ra0 ; Invalid argument.

:/

**gandaran** · March 17th, 2012

Originally Posted by hackeron

Also, I tried compiling manually, I now see a ra0 interface but...

Code:

root@FitPC4:~# iwconfig ra0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device ra0 ; Invalid argument.

:/

what brand and model of laptop?
and what ubuntu version?
the ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090 does not work for 11.10 but your wireless card should work without installing drivers on 11.10, I believe it only needs some minor fix.
see if this thread helps
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1849602

**i_am_lost** · May 5th, 2012

Download kernel source, make, and sudo make install this:

compat-wireless-3.4-rc3-1.tar.bz2

This works 100% with 12.04 LTS kernel 3xx on amd64....

There is only one driver package for the rt5890 that works in client mode for the rt3090:

https://launchpad.net/~marko-techytalk.info/+archive/ralink-wireless

This will enable you to connect to wireless. Note, you will have to re-enable 2800 mods, and >purge< any driver deb package you installed before installing the new .ko

Do not use the manufacturers website at all...

the card cost me $10... and I still feel ripped off.

**ariel** · June 1st, 2012

Originally Posted by i_am_lost

Download kernel source, make, and sudo make install this:

compat-wireless-3.4-rc3-1.tar.bz2

This works 100% with 12.04 LTS kernel 3xx on amd64....

There is only one driver package for the rt5890 that works in client mode for the rt3090:

https://launchpad.net/~marko-techytalk.info/+archive/ralink-wireless

This will enable you to connect to wireless. Note, you will have to re-enable 2800 mods, and >purge< any driver deb package you installed before installing the new .ko

Do not use the manufacturers website at all...

the card cost me $10... and I still feel ripped off.

do you still find compat wireless 3.4-rc3-1 stable for you? I have a ralink ra2860 based card, removed all linux-backports-modules-cw-* modules (which I was using, but they were unstable), installed 3.4rc3, now every now and then the connection drops and to restablish it I need to rmmod rt2800pci and the modprobe it back. It's kind of annoying.