Ralink Rt3290 Wireless 802.11bgn Wifi Adapter Driver Windows 10

[Jenni Israelsen]

HelpWhen I updated to Windows 10, my Wi-Fi quit working. I have a good Wi-Fi connection for other devices in the house. In network & security, I can only see the ethernet option. I can see the Wi-Fi adapter is the Ralink RT-3290 802.11 bgn wi-fi driver which is a windows 7 driver. I tried updating the drivers in the HP assistant but the reply is that I have the latest drivers (that HP has....) I have looked everywhere and am unable to find the windows 10 driver. Thanks everybody. Jim

When i ran the .exe file you provided, it set up the C:SWSETUP folder. I wasn't sure what to do with the folder but ran the setup.exe. It started to execute then just went away. I restarted my computer just in case it worked but no luck with a wireless connection coming up in the Network&security and same ol drivers present on my system.

That was the one and only W10 driver they made for that card, and what is happening two years down the road, with all these new updates to W10, some hardware no longer works because the manufacturers won't update the drivers.

Appreciate your help and additional info, especially about the USB device if I need it. In your last post, you said to go to device manager >> network & security >>>then select my ralink wi-fi card. That is not a choice. All I have under that area is the following:

Your screenshot shows that the Ralink wifi card has completely disappeared from the device manager, which is a common problem with that wifi card, and any subsequent updates of W10 from the original version that came out in July of 2015.

Sorry for the late reply. I do have an usb wifi adapter. But how can I configure it in linux in a way that the internal wifi gets disabled and wifi then runs from the usb wifi adapter?

Lastly, I am using Zorin OS alongside Windows, so if I disable the internal adapter in linux, will it also get disabled from the windows part too? (N.B.: It works fine in Windows)

This depends on the drivers and chipset- how you install it. Many work out of the box, since they use the same drivers and chipset. If the device is well supported, this will happen and you will not need to do anything.

Otherwise, when you install the drivers, you then set the chipset of the WiFi device to autostart.

Hey bro, followed your advice and connected an external usb wifi adapter, no new drivers were needed, however, the same thing happened again. At first, the wifi was connected without any interruption but after a few minutes, the internet stopped working and I needed to disable and enable wifi again to connect to internet. Basically, same as before, is it any software issue or settings that I could try to change? Eagerly waiting for your reply.

It works fine on my Windows partition so I don't believe it to be the hardware or the network. Exactly the same as you mine connects for a few minutes in Zorin (I have managed to download something and use Google so it definitely does work) but then will not connect again unless I disable the network adapter and re-enable it.

Aravisian is right. I was using a Medialink router several years ago, I had it for about 3-years. Before I went to bed the internet and network were stilling working, when I got up the next morning, everything was dead.

I did as much troubleshooting as I could, but not only were my internet and network dead from the router, but I couldn't even get into my router's configuration. Power cycling did no good, nothing I could do could fix it, the router was dead.

I bought a new router, problem solved, and I've had my router already for several years. Eventually, when money allows, I'd like to upgrade to a faster router, but this one is still going strong for now.

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Hola, se me han desistalado los drivers ralink rt3290 802.11 bgn wifi adapter, tengo el hp pavilion g6 y windows 10. No me funciona ni wifi, ni bluetooth, modo avin...si alguin sabe cmo puedo volver a instalarlos y de dnde descargarlos. Gracias.

Me ha servido tu solucin para mis drivers Bluetooth de mi porttil HP 250 G3 (a pesar de que no era el Pavilion G6). Lo dejo aqu por si a alguien ms le sirve, ya que yo ya daba por perdido el uso del Bluetooth de mi equipo tras haber reinstalado Windows 10 y no tener manera de poder instalar esos drivers en concreto (ni manualmente de la pgina de HP, ni por Windows Update, ni nada). Es curioso tambin que los drivers del Pavilion G6 eran para WIndows 8.1 y no para Windows 10 (que es el que tengo). El caso es que, sea como sea, funciona.

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