Ubuntu 11.04 Supports This Wifi Board Natively.
Updated 05/09/2011
Let's imagine the following situation, you buy a laptop and install it Ubuntu y does not detect the wireless network or Wifi, or even worse the wired network is not detected either, this is because those chips use proprietary drivers and are not included in the ubuntu kernel, therefore you have to install them as an extra, according to my experience several of the laptops MSI they have this rt3090 chip, and according to the comments there are HP and Sony laptops that make use of this same chip.
Diver Maintained by Markus Heberling at https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/
We start to work
This driver was tested on MSI CR610 y MSI XSlim 320, and according to comments in this same post also in the Asus eeepc 1201PN If you have any other notebook with this chip it will work, there is only one problem, the driver patches the kernel and every time it is updated you have to re-install.
Remember that all commands are run from the terminal of a user who can use sudo.
Install Ralink RT3090 on Ubuntu (APT Method)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: markus-tisoft / rt3090 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rt3090-dkms sudo reboot
The disadvantage is that without internet there is no way to install it, for example with the MSI X-Slim It is not possible because the LAN chip is not supported either, in this case or we use a usb board or the following method.
Install Ralink RT3090 on Ubuntu (DEB Method)
wget -c https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/+files/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb rm rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb sudo reboot
This method is the one that I use in my MSI CR610, save the deb package and when I update I reinstall and voila.
this code that I have to reinstall the driver
sudo apt-get -y remove rt3090-dkms sudo dpkg -i rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0 ~ ppa1_all.deb
If someone has information on how to do so that when updating the kernel, the driver will not be lost, let us know.
As a complementary method create a project in Google Code with Script that generates a binary to install the Driver and a Command to reinstall in case of Updating the Kernel, the RT3090Setup Project page.
Thank you for your Comments, If there is any ERROR it is the product of your imagination, hahaha
Attention: For it to work, follow the guide, because if you skip any step it will not work for you, please do not claim that you have problems if you did not perform all the steps.
Hola!
Very good your article. I managed to get wireless running on my vaio VPCM120AL netbook. The only strange thing is that sometimes when I reboot, it seems that it does not recognize the card. This is very random, but I could say that 50% of the reboots the device appears 😐
The network manager tells me: Device not managed.
Has this happened to someone?
Hey man, I have the same problem. I have not been able to install the drivers on my VAIO VPCM120AL. Did you make any changes to what was suggested on this page or did you install any other files?
Thank you!!
Hello, the first thing is to know if the lan network card works, because if so you can install the package over the internet and after restarting you already have the Wi-Fi working.
I need help, I don't know what to do anymore
my ubuntu 10.04 does not recognize my graphics card I have tried in many ways and I could not….
I have installed from synaptic, software center, terminal among other forms that I have found in Internet….
someone who tells me how to recognize it safely
my graphics card is an NVidia
grax
your prompt help will be very useful for me
hello, the truth in other versions of ubuntu had problems with vga, but not now, try another version of the most current driver or download it from the nvidia website.
the address https // launchpad.net…. it doesn't work i can't download the .deb file help i have a sony vaio vpcm120al with ralink rt3090 card
alejandro: the address if it works, I just downloaded the file to test and I downloaded it without problems, try again.
regards
Very good tutor…. my Wireless on HP Mini working ..
Thank you very much
When installing the .deb file, ubuntu asks me for the installation cd ... but I'm on a netbook that doesn't have a CD-Rom drive ... how do I do it then to install the missing dependencies ??? or rather .. what does the driver require to install ???
It is necessary to say that I do not have an internet connection to apply any of the 2 methods.
in my case when I tested it on an msi x320 netbook that did not have support for wired network either, I used a linksys usb wifi card that allowed me to connect, look for the dependencies and only figure dkms (http://packages.ubuntu.com/es/lucid/dkms), this depends on a lot of libraries, the truth is that it is better to use a usb wifi card.
another way is that you create a version of ubuntu with eld river pre installed, with uck (http://uck.sourceforge.net/), I use it to tuner a bit, but you can remove and add programs, it generates an iso for you then you create a bootable usb with your custom ubuntu and that's it, you have the driver.
Hey, the first option doesn't work on my hp 110-3019 notebook and I try the second option. I open the terminal, I type the first line and it tells me connected, waiting for an answer, and then 404 not found error. I put it in a search engine and yes. pull… what's up ??? You can download it and then pull it from the download folder ... I know you can help me, please help me ...
Hello, I tried and the download works, it is likely that you do not have internet or that at that moment the server where the .deb package is not working well
Thank you
You saved my life !, 3 days ago I was struggling with the wifi of my netbook and finally here I found the solution.
In passing, the Asus eeepc 1201PN also includes this ralink 0390 chip 😉
Thanks, now I have WiFi
Hello, thank you, one tries to help, on the other hand I think that if I can make my wifi work why keep the data, if one who solves a problem publishes it, we will all be super good. garcias
Thank you very much, the apt method was the one used and it has served me wonderfully, I have a hp pavilion dv5 lap and use this card for the wirless.
hi compare i am new i have that problem install with deb. The drivers of the ralix 3090 but my wifi does not activate as I should be thankssss
Thanks for the contribution, it worked for me on my hp 420 when I had linux mint 9, but now I installed 10 and none of the other options work for me.
please see if you can do something. thank you anyway
hello, the driver it is only for ubuntu jaunty, lucid and karmic, surely in linux mint it works because it is a green ubuntu (mint, haha) and in ubuntu karmic I did not try it I use lucid.
This reminds me of rt2500 wifi chips. one is today that recognizes it but only at a speed of 10 MB. Thank goodness I'm already retiring.
I have an HP with that card and I can't detect the wifi I hope that with this if I pull
I hope it helps you, remember to use the package for the version you have of Ubuntu.
Hello, I am enormously grateful for your work, it's great. only that in my case neither of the two network cards work, neither the wireless nor the lan (cable) XD I was wondering if there is any step I can do in another Linux to obtain the file and then take it to the computer with it problem, in this case an Eeepc 1001ha
greetings and congratulations for this contribution
Hello, I told you that last month a friend told me the same thing on irc and we tried to download the packages and dependencies but there are so many that it is almost impossible to finish downloading them, in the end we use a supported usb wifi card and thus install everything.
another method using UCK (Ubuntu Customization Kit - http://uck.sourceforge.net/) in another with ubuntu and generate an iso that already has the intrados drivers.
hi again, i got a working wireless adapter and updated the system. now the problem is that the commands on this page give me errors and I don't know why.
In the apt option it tells me add-apt-repository: command not found and in the deb option it tells me that it does not find the server and it is strange since on my other pc that command works correctly
I have managed to install it using the first method but I get an error:
root @ alexo-laptop: / home / alexo # sudo dpkg -i rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0 ~ ppa1_all.deb
dpkg: error processing rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0 ~ ppa1_all.deb (–install):
the file cannot be accessed: The file or directory does not exist
Errors were encountered while processing:
rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb
root @ alexo-laptop: / home / alexo # wget -c https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/+files/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb
–2010-12-15 18:55:18– https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/+files/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb
Resolving launchpad.net… 91.189.89.223, 91.189.89.222
Connecting to launchpad.net | 91.189.89.223 |: 443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response ... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38891097/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0%7Eppa1_all.deb [following]
–2010-12-15 18:55:18– http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38891097/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0%7Eppa1_all.deb
Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net… 91.189.89.229, 91.189.89.228
Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net | 91.189.89.229 |: 80… connected.
HTTP request sent, waiting for response ... 200 OK
Length: 1615912 (1,5M) [application / x-debian-package]
Guardando a: «rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb»
100% [============================================== ====================================>] 1.615.912 160K / s in 9,0s
2010-12-15 18:55:27 (175 KB / s) - "rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0 ~ ppa1_all.deb" saved [1615912/1615912]
root @ alexo-laptop: / home / alexo # sudo dpkg -i rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0 ~ ppa1_all.deb
dpkg: the state database area is locked by another process
root@alexo-laptop:/home/alexo# rm rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb
root @ alexo-laptop: / home / alexo # sudo dpkg -i rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0 ~ ppa1_all.deb
dpkg: the state database area is locked by another process
root @ alexo-laptop: / home / alexo #
and on other occasions it installs an error and a broken package appears in the toolbar
Hi, how are you? I have the same problem. I have a laptop hp G42 ubuntu 10.10. I used the first step and it told me that the laonpad was not found, I used the second one and when I restart it detects the networks but I cannot connect to them.
I will appreciate your help and passion, I am a newbie
Apparently the same problem as in the MSI U3 Install Ralink RT130 in Ubuntu
Hello dear!!!
Thank you very much for the info ... the title is reflected in each google search so it was easy for me to find you. I have some doubts I have an MSI lap which I want to run by booting a Back Track disk from it and I have read it and the problem is that indeed this environment does not detect the network card that is a RALINK3090 here my question is where do I download to use from back track the ralink3090? and how do I run or install it? could you put the url and the script of how to do it? really THANK YOU VERY MUCH for sharing the knowledge friend. A hug
forgiveness. … My email is: victor.bathory@gmail.com
I appreciate any information 🙂
excuse a doubt, RT3090 is installed in the same way in all versions of ubuntu had 10.02.04 and it worked well for me that I want to change to ubuntu 11.02 and I would like to know if your method will work in that version
Thank you for the information, it was very useful, I did not find it, thank you very much
hello, person for not answering, good news, ubuntu 11.04 has a built-in driver for said wifi board, so there is no need to deny more. Thank you
I tell you that it detects my card, it shows the networks it does not connect, and it hangs if I deactivate it…. I think they need to update the integrated driver, so if I deny
Hello, I tell you that it did not work very well in ubuntu natty (11.04) and I returned to the ubuntu licid (10.04), it did not behave as I wanted, it was more unusable. The driver for ubuntu natty (11.04) is already in the repo, they would have to try, I stay in ubuntu lucid (10.04).
Hello, I'll tell you that I managed to make the wireless card work after hours of searching, I found it out there in the ubuntu forums, you don't have to install anything, or compile etc, you just have to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file
this is what i put at the end of the file
# fix the wifi errors by removing the rest of the drivers
blacklist rt2x00lib
black list rt2800pci
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt3390sta
save and reboot and voila (now I have another problem no longer has to do with wifi ...)
what is the advanced options configuration of ralink rt3090,
so that it has a greater reception?
first of all, Thanks
well, a really good method, the only thing ... what happens if you can't connect to the internet by any means ... not by cable ... ???, what a great idea right? do the installer of a network card when you have to be connected to download the dependencies ... is there not one that has the dependencies included? ...
Hello, a while ago I started to download all the dependencies and I did not finish as many as they are, I had this dilemma in an msi x320 netbook and I used a supported usb wifi card and with that I installed everything and that's it, it is not the solution that we seek but help in those moments. I start to see how we solve this.
I think it would be good to create a project that integrates all these dependencies and this driver, if I knew how to do it….
I'll tell you that I'm writing to you from the latest version of mandriva one 2010.2 kde, and the wireless card worked, I didn't have to do anything, from the livecd it works fine,
by the way my laptop is a hp pavillion dv5 2035la so those who want to try another linux ... you know, this shows that it works in linux so I'll stay with mandriva for a while ...
Excellent post, thank you!
Greetings colleagues! I have a problem, my laptop, an msi cr420 with rt3090 adapter, seems to recognize it, in terminal it comes out but it tells me that this crash, I try to raise it but it gives me a read-write error and in the network manager it appears as disabled, which it will be!!!!
Attention, kernel 2.6.38 has native support for this board. I tested it on ubuntu 10.04 64bits.
I have a hp 420 with ubuntu 9.10 (it is the one that I like because of how stable and because of the great support that there is), it detects almost all the drivers except one the RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T / 1R PCIe well I did an lspci and it tells me that I already have them installed but I still can't see any wi-fi network. I saw everything that the forums and help told me and I even downloaded the Ralink drivers and I had no solution to my problem ...
After nodding off my problem one afternoon, I remembered that a couple of years ago I was using a network card manager called wicd and I decided to uninstall the gnome-network-manager. Once uninstalled, I installed the wicd, restart the computer and return the change to the shot, when the restart was activated, the wi-wf power light was activated once I started the section, everything ok, enter the programs to see how many networks it detected and there it was. see all the illuminated radio of wi-fi networks, configure my wi-fi network and have to do this post
I hope to help someone with something….
mmm what Luciano Gaete says looks like my problem, mmm I can install the wicd mmm but how do I uninstall the network manager?
on a console
# apt-get remove –purge network-manager
(purge is to remove the package completely)
then in the same console place
# apt-get autoremove
to remove any program stub that is left spinning.
then in the same console install the wincd
# apt-get install wincd
in case you don't like how it works just uninstall the wincd and reinstall the network-manager
... I hope it helps you ...
errata
I think I was wrong in the command where it says wincd should say "wicd"
thus…
# apt-get remove –purge network-manager
(purge is to remove the package completely)
then in the same console place
# apt-get autoremove
to remove any program stub that is left spinning.
then in the same console install the wicd
# apt-get install wicd
in case you don't like how it works just uninstall the wicd and reinstall the network-manager
... I hope it helps you ...
Thanks mate, as soon as I have a while I will make the touch mmmm there, going through a bit I managed to uninstall it but surely it was wrong because the wicd when it feels like it sees the networks and when it does not ...
ha ha ha again I colleagues, hehe I happened to win, ubuntu is nice, but those loqueras with the wifi make me bad, now if it detects the networks but it no longer connects to any 🙁
hey brother really thanks for the help it helped me a lot and I will publish my experience acquired here and in other posts, but I have a doubt what happens that I install ubuntu 11.02 but to be honest I did not like it because I had problems with my network card so I decided to try ubuntu 10.10 but the driver didn't work either. my data from my pc is hp pavilion-dv5 64-bit processor, install ubuntu 10.10 (64-bit) and I have that problem again but being honest I don't know if this method works published in this version thanks really thank you very much I hope your answer and Thank you for sharing that aaaaaaaaa and another thing you will not have a method to communicate mail or something if ps so that you give it to me and continue learning linux thank you very much and continue like this I WANT TO LEARN MORE THANK YOU I WAIT FOR YOUR ANSWER
Hello, I have an msi cr610 with the same chip and with the same problem in Ubuntu 10.10, to cut a long story short I did the following:
1 ° .- download the .deb package from my desktop pc from the following page: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/38891097/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0%7Eppa1_all.deb, save it to a USB and install it on the laptop
2 ° .- I restarted the lap and edited the blacklist.conf file as explained above lines
after that I managed to establish the connection, but it disconnects every 60 seconds or so, in addition, (I did not realize this before) when starting ubuntu, I get the legend «cannot reserve MMIO region…. (a bug that I have had since I installed the version) and immediately below ...... 'driver rt2860' to ready exist, abort ... I don't know what, everything happens in a fraction of a second, but I have an idea that both drivers are in conflict and It is only a matter of uninstalling the rt2860, I want to know if I am right and if so, what can I do to remedy it.
first of all, Thanks
Hello, the truth is strange your problem, and I did not test the driver in Ubuntu 10.10, I use version 10.04, I tried to use the most updated kernel that already has the integrated driver and it worked well for me although I was not convinced since it generated other problems, Besides that when I started I got the error that you mention all this with the kernel 2.6.38, now I returned to the last one for Ubuntu 10.04. In version 11.04 the driver issue has already been solved but it is still unstable.
It is precisely the kernel that I have (2.6.38), since with that version I downloaded the live cd, what do you recommend? update the kernel, or update Natty directly.
Thank you.
hello, in my case I did not like ubuntu 11.04 and it was only tested in ubuntu 10.04, in which it works perfectly, the kernel 38, has problems, the battery lasts less and the computer is slower, 2 out of 5 startups crashed and more silly things but that added. that's why I'm sticking to version 10.04, it even made me want to try arch linux.
Thanks for your help, I think I already know what I'll do, if it works for me I'll comment.
hello brother I already solved my problem of ubuntu 10.10 (64 bits) esque also had a problem when turning off the pc and I solved it by putting this:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
then you put the following at the end of the file:
black list rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib
My problem was that when I neglected to turn off my computer it always stayed on so I resorted to forced shutdown and wrote this solution and now it is super good, it turns off in 3 seconds so I publish this solution here in case someone is useful, and I also solve that only It connected to a network and it always asked me for network authentication and it never let me connect to another network other than a single one, nothing more ...
with this all that SULUCIONADO.
I hope you have adduced someone
BUT I HAVE A NEW PROBLEM WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT I WANT TO DO A NETWORK AUDIT AND I CANNOT INJECT PACKAGES, PLEASE ASK YOU THAT IF SOMEONE SOLVES THIS PROBLEM OR FOUND THE SOLUTION, TO NOTIFY ME HERE I WILL BE VERY THANK YOU BECAUSE I WILL BE VERY THANK YOU BECAUSE I WILL BE VERY THANK YOU
ivan your data works out of ten, in the proprietary ubuntu drivers it tells me that the rt3090 driver is installed but is not being used, but with the blacklisted drivers it works as it should
Hey brother, it's good that I could help you but now I need help, I can't find how to inject with this RT3090 network card in Ubuntu 10.10 (64 bits). I HOPE SOMEONE WILL HELP ME SOON.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY MY NETWORK CARD IS RT3090 AND MY PC IS AN HP-PAVILION-DV5 (64 BITS) AND I HAVE INSTALLED UBUNTU 10.10 (64 BITS)
Do what you say above in the beginning and you see if it works I already did it I have the same lap as you and if it worked for me
Thank you, good contribution to me, if it worked for me first, you have to see what type of network card you have and if it is Ralink RT3090 if it works for you and if you do not have to look there are several tutorials
got damn. n_n
My problem is the following :, I already tried everything that says above except modifying the file, my lap is an msi cr420 with the wireless network card in question, I have not been able to make it work with the battery in place, it only works well if I have the battery disconnected, I have installed the version of ubuntu 11.04 natty with the kernel 2.6.38-8-generic, the update manager does not let me update the kernel, which they advise me to do.
Hello, I clarified that in newer versions of Ubuntu it already has native support, also with the version that you use I for my part had problems: the wifi was cut off, it crashed when starting, battery lasts little and more. that's why I stay in lucid (10.04) and layers that I pass to debian or arch, no but we see.
Thank you!!! XD, I'm going to try the latest version that I think is still in beta, then I'll tell you how it went, greetings and thank you very much.
later I report !!!
Brother, thank you very much, the fine wifi works for me thanks to you in a VIT minilapto of those made in Venezuela by the government, go ahead and long live free software where everything can be done to the impossible, thanks really, very good, your article easy to understand in Creole a I throw to the floor thank you
HELLO AGAIN PS MY PROBLEMS IS WITH THE INJECTION OF PACKAGES WITH THIS NETWORK CARD. IF SOMEONE CAN ALREADY FIND THIS SOLUTION OR HAVE ANY KIND OF HELP, PLEASE GIVE ME SAVER IN ADVANCE THANKS….
Friend I need your help urgently, I have followed step by step the installation of the card drivers, but I get an error since the dependencies are not ready or are unsatisfied, something like that, you know how to solve that problem, if you can help me, let me know and I will explain step by step what messages the process throws at me, thank you, you are a great partner in this
No maaaaaaa amigooo graciasaaa (ivan) your solution helped me a lot. I had been looking for almost 8 months for a solution to the WiFi problem on an HP G42-165LA with Ralink RT 3090 board, I always f »frezeeaba» the screen every time I turned off the laptop and every time I turned the Wireless on or off
Many Thanks
Long live Free software =)
you're welcome brother we are to help hopefully someone can help me, I have almost a year looking for a solution to my problem
I am a teacher, and one of my students asked me for help with a ZTE V60 netbook, which Yoigo apparently distributes when hiring his flat rate. When looking for information about this netbook I read that Yoigo does not offer drivers for this little machine, since when it is distributed with Windows 7 pre-installed, it installs all the drivers by default and is not necessary.
Needless to say, what bothered me is such an absurd idea. I recommended to my student that he install Linux, specifically the Molinux distribution, since he is a newcomer in these struggles, and also Molinux has abundant information in Spanish.
A few days later he returned with Molinux Zoraida installed but neither the Ethernet nor the wireless card worked. The Ethernet thing was a matter of editing the / etc / network / interfaces file and adding the lines "auto eth0" and "iface eth0 inet dhcp" and that's it. For the wireless, I used Luciano's recipe and it worked the first time, downloading the .deb package.
Thanks, Luciano. Now it is nice to see Molinux surfing at full speed, either with cable or wireless.
Greetings to all
I have also solved the problem. In the link above https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/
I could not download the driver, I followed the following steps that I obtained in:
http://www.ubuntu-es.org/node/166345#.UEyozLLN–0
First I downloaded the card driver at the following link:
https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090/+files/rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.debHaciendo double click on the file that was downloaded, installed, rebooted and it worked !!!
Thanks for everything
Thank you very much, it works perfectly on my MSI CX 700 with said network card. Greetings from Seville and I reiterate my thanks.
Hello. Thanks for the post, the Deb method helped me solve the problem, I copied it to the terminal and then I opened the link to download the package, I installed it and that's it, my Linux Mint with wi-fi. I have a Lenovo Ideapad S206 Laptop and it also has the Ralink RT3090 card.
Thanks a hug from Bogotá.