Rt3290 Wireless 802.11bgn Driver

[Orville Marquez]

Somecases mention downgrading to 12.04 and then installing a specific 3.6 kernel version for it, others mention upgrading to 13.04 and installing the 3.9 kernel version. And even another case where it mentions the user to download the drivers from the official site and do a step by step guide on how to install it.

I will mention several ways of doing it, all of which involve downloading the driver, compiling it and making sure it works. It has been noted that in the 3.9 kernel version, the wireless card is working correctly, so in 13.04 with backports or 13.10 this issue should be resolved.

Go to Mediatek and download the Ralink RT3290 Driver for Linux MediaTek did a fine job on moving the link to download and not having a redirect for it. Here is the new Link for all Downloadable Firmware but guess what, they removed RT3290 from it. Go Mediatek ;)

When opening the config.mk file, do not only change the HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT to a value of y, but also do it with HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT in case it has n. In my case it had y but it should be checked to make sure both WPA_SUPPLICANT are set to `y.

If you have trouble compiling the driver on Ubuntu 13.04 or Ubuntu 13.10 (and perhaps later versions as well), then this may be because of a change to the Linux kernel creating an incompatibility with the driver code. This can possibly be fixed by opening

I have an HP Pavillion Touch 14-N009LA with a Ralink RT3290 wireless card running Debian Jessie with kernel 3.12.9-1. This distro looks as if the wireless drivers were included, and from another post here it would look like it should work with the rt2800pci module, which is listed by lsmod and loads fine. However, whenever I issue ifconfig wlan0 up, I get SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory. I tried using the kernel.org compatibility sources from the previously linked post and they didn't work, after installing them I can't load the module and I must uninstall them and use the Debian-bundled module. I tried compiling the driver's sources from this other thread and they don't compile. I'm not sure if downloading the binary archive linked on that thread will be a good idea given that that one is for Ubuntu and I'm running Debian Testing. I tried to apply this fix here for Arch/Gentoo but couldn't find the right file.

So basically, it looks like I have to get the drivers to compile. I have build-essential and linux-headers-amd64 for my running version of the kernel, tried with HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y and HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y as well as with only HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT on, and this is what I get:

So... this is really bizarre, and I can't guarantee it will work, but it worked for me and I wanted to put this information somewhere that a lot of people would end up seeing it and have something to try if they still can't get their rt3290 working.

I couldn't get the rt3290 working for the life of me under Debian Squeeze, no matter what I tried, installing the firmware-ralink package, trying to compile the drivers manually (to no avail because of missing dependencies that cause problems if forced into the system), etc.

Yeah. I don't get it either. I don't really have a lot of data with which to back up my answer other than the fact that my dongle is sitting unplugged next to me and I am connected with my rt3290, but if someone else 'solved' the problem this way, I would have loved to have seen this bizarre solution somewhere while I was struggling. So if there's anyone out there still having the same troubles I am, I hope you find this answer by way of google and give the TP-Link drivers a try.

if you are using debian 8 or debian 9, as well as ubuntu from 16 the drive will already be installed. The problem is that the drive can't handle the name that's given the interface. For the drive to work just rename the card. in the file "/ etc / default / grub" change lines so that it looks like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX = "net.ifnames = 0 biosdevname = 0" then run the following command: sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg That's just restart the machine. That the drive will be working.

Help!! When 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.

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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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