Saturday, October 30, 2010

HP ProBook 4520s install driver for RaLink RT3090 Wireless in KUbuntu

There is a Novell SUSE Linux on my HP4520s but I like free software. In spite of that it was bought with my notebook I decided to use Kubuntu. I installed it successfully. Only one that was not discovered was RaLink RT3090 Wireless adapter. To solve that problem I found a solution.

#lspci...

44:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
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  1. download DPO_RT3390_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.1_20100831.tgz from http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
  2. gunzip -c DPO_RT3390_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.1_20100831.tgz| tar xvf -
  3. cd ./DPO_RT3390_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.1_20100831
  4. change  in os/linux/config.mk
  5. modify :
    1. HAS_ATE=y
    2. HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
    3. HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
    4. HAS_ANTENNA_DIVERSITY_SUPPORT=y
  6. make clean; make; make install
  7. echo "blacklist rt2800pci" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
  8. echo "rt3390sta" >> /etc/modules
  9. reboot


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