How do I get my RaLink RT3090 wifi card to work?

dth4h · #1 13th August 2010, 05:44 AM

I just got a new HP PC and it has a RaLink RT3090 wifi card in it. This is the lspci output:

04:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

It works fine in windows but it does not work in Fedora 13. I looked on RaLinks site and found a driver for it on RaLinks site but I have no idea how to install it, and I think I read somewhere that there were problems with it and you needed a patch witch makes it even more complicated. So does anyone know of I driver that I can just install easily or does someone know how to install the driver from RaLinks site and the patch?

Any help would be much appreciated.

dth4h · #2 23rd August 2010, 04:41 PM

Does anyone know if I can use ndiswrapper to install the windows driver for this wifi card?

dth4h · #3 28th August 2010, 06:48 PM

Ok I downloaded the linux rt3090 driver from RaLinks site and unpacked it and ran make. I did not see any errors. I restarted my computer and my wifi card still will not work! Fedora does not see it

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Does anyone know how to get this wifi card to work?

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I got it to work. I didn't run make install after I ran make thats why it didn't work. This is how I got it to work:

1. I downloaded the driver from RaLinks site
2. yum install cloog-ppl cpp glibc-devel glibc-headers mpfr ppl gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel (make sure that if have a PAE kernel that you install kernel-PAE-devel instead of kernel-devel)
3. untar the driver from RaLinks site
4. open a terminal and cd to the untared directory
5. run make
6. run make install
7. reboot
and it worked!

I found that there is a patch for the driver here but I dont know what it does or if I need it. If I do need it does anyone know how to install it?

dth4h · #4 31st August 2010, 11:27 PM

Ok I am having a problem. When I try to connect to a network my system completely freezes! I have to keep doing a hard reboot and keep trying to connect to the network until it works. I'd say it does this about half the time. Maybe the patch is supposed to fix this?

Does anyone know how to fix this
and does anyone know how to install the patch?

xd1936 · #5 8th October 2010, 12:26 AM

I am having the same problem now. Did you ever find a solution?
F13, HP Mini 110-3000

dth4h · #6 8th October 2010, 08:11 AM

No I never found a fix. Sorry

xd1936 · #7 4th November 2010, 07:05 AM

Well, the good news is, this same process doesn't crash F14. However, it doesn't fix it either.. installing the current (2.4.0.1) drivers from RaLink tech does nothing. Any ideas?

dth4h · #8 6th November 2010, 03:06 AM

Its not working for me either

kamokow · #9 6th November 2010, 04:29 AM

I'm having problems with a RaLink RT3090 card as well. I had it working fine in Fedora 13, but I updated to Fedora 14 yesterday and was unable to get it working by building from source like I was in F13. I also tried installing the kmod packages for it from rpmfusion's free repos, but that didn't work either.

I'm running Fedora 14 (KDE Spin) x86_64, lspci's output for the card is:

Quote:

02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

I'll keep trying to get something to work, hopefully someone can find a fix.

dth4h · #10 8th November 2010, 07:00 PM

Hey guys I found out something interesting. The latest version of Ubuntu is also having problems with the RaLink driver. I read online that Ubuntu 10.10 64bit does not work with the RaLink driver, 32bit works fine. I also read that the driver worked fine with Ubuntu 10.04. I am wondering if there is a connection? Both Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 worked fine with the RaLink driver. Now Fedora and Ubuntu both come out with a new OS and it doesn't work. I am not sure if the new RaLink driver has something to do with it. The way to test that out would to install the new driver on Fedora 13 and see if it works. If it does then I think that the linux kernel is the problem, or the new driver is not working with the new kernel but its works fine with the old one. Both Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10 are running Linux Kernel 2.6.35.

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Hey guys I want to do a test. I want to install the old RaLink driver on Fedora 14 and see what happens. The only problem I have is I don't know how to uninstall it when I am done. Does anyone know how to do that?

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Also do you guys know where I could download the old driver?

os2 · #11 8th November 2010, 08:27 PM

It's not only Realtek, Intel 4965 wlan does not work on Fedora 14 64 bit also, but warked fine on Fedora 13

dth4h · #12 9th November 2010, 05:39 AM

I GOT IT TO WORK!!! Look at the first post on this forum. Do all the steps on the first post except instead of installing these packages: build-essential, devscripts and cdbs (these packages are for Ubuntu) install these packages: cloog-ppl cpp glibc-devel glibc-headers ppl gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel.

It has only locked up my system a few times, but nowhere close to as many times as it did with the old driver on Fedora 13. It seems that it locks up your system when the driver connects to a new network for the first time. Other then that it has been fine.

Thanks rtomakov for the help

kamokow · #13 10th November 2010, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dth4h

I GOT IT TO WORK!!! Look at the first post on this forum. Do all the steps on the first post except instead of installing these packages: build-essential, devscripts and cdbs (these packages are for Ubuntu) install these packages: cloog-ppl cpp glibc-devel glibc-headers ppl gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel.

It has only locked up my system a few times, but nowhere close to as many times as it did with the old driver on Fedora 13. It seems that it locks up your system when the driver connects to a new network for the first time. Other then that it has been fine.

Thanks rtomakov for the help

Thanks so much! You deserve a delicious cookie for posting that.
Oh, and for future reference the fedora equivalent of build-essential can be installed like this:

Code:

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

That will install everything you need to compile the RT3090 drivers as well as other useful development tools.

dth4h · #14 10th November 2010, 06:01 PM

Thanks kamokow, and yes I did know that but I am not sure which of the packages I listed are included in the Development Tools group. I know gcc is.

xd1936 · #15 13th November 2010, 06:40 AM

All of those are included in the Development Tools group.

Alright guys. I can't get it working.

-I install a fresh, clean install of Fedora 14 x86_64.
-I install all updates and restart
-I log in as root
-I yum groupinstall the Dev Tools and restart
-I yum install the list above, just to be sure. All is installed.
-I download the driver (20101110? That's interesting. Was the file itself always named that? Or is this new?)
-I navigate to the directory and make, make install

http://pastebin.com/CC6QwbdP

I error out. Any ideas?

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Oh, and similar happens on 32-bit i686 as well.