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Sickify

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Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 8

Help With RT3090 Wireless

Hello,
I've just completed my first install of Arch Linux, with KDE as my desktop environment.
Everything is working great so far with the exception of knetworkmanager and my wireless card.
I'm not too concerned with knetworkmanager I can puzzle my way through that one, but i'm stumped with wireless.
The card is a ralink rt3090.

Running grep | -i net in a terminal issues;
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
06:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

However, iwconfig issues;
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     RT2860 Wireless  ESSID:""  Nickname:"RT2860STA"
          Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:-87 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

So first off, why does one command list my card as the rt3090 (correct) while the other spits out rt2860?
Now I understand I need to grab the firmware file from the ralink website, but where exactly do I put it, and how do I configure it from there?

//Edit
I've got knetworkmanager running, and it does detect that i've got wireless. But doesn't detect any networks. Thinking I need to do something with the firmware file.
Thank You.

Last edited by Sickify (2010-03-11 04:26:07)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Help With RT3090 Wireless

rt2860sta is the name of the driver - that's what iwconfig is showing you. Firmware files should be installed in /lib/firmware.