Can't install driver for Ralink? USB wifi adapter

[bgaulke]

I have Linux Lite 2.6 installed on an old IBM ThinkPad A31p which doesn't have an internal wireless adapter, so I purchased a cheap USB adapter on Amazon, brand unknown.  It came with a CD with the driver, but I don't know how to install the driver from the CD.  I have tried to use the GDebi package installer, but got this error:

dpkg: error processing archive firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/rt3290.bin', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.127.15
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb

Can anyone help me?  Thanks

[Wirezfree]

[size=1em]Hi,

Mediatek don't appear to list a Linux driver, maybe they did at some point..??[/size]

[size=1em]But if you look at this post, 2nd post down, somebody posted a solution,[/size]
[size=1em]with a link to a driver, and a number of people confirmed/said it worked.[/size]
[size=1em]This needs verifying by a LL techy bod, I don't know enough techy stuff...[/size]

[size=1em]GL...[/size]

[torreydale]

You should open a terminal and run the following command.  Then post the output, so we can know for sure what type of no-name wifi usb network interface card you purchased.

Code:

inxi -Fxx

[Valtam]

Error suggests you already have the driver in your system.

[rokytnji]

Error suggests you already have the driver in your system.

Something previously discussed at

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...175553470/

I suggested he take his problem here as patches were suggested which applied to Lubuntu but I was pretty sure not applicable to Linux-Lite.
I figured the experts here would show him how to get his working. Mine was a Out of the box enabled after switching out usb wireless "G" for a usb wireless "N"
on mine. All I had to do was change wireless interface preferences from wlan0 to what the current one was showing in

Code:

sudo ifconfig -a

The OP has the cd that came with usb. Just in case his chip is not supported by firmware in Linux-Lite. I could not tell with the distractions coming in from other members
suggesting what worked for them on other distros.

So here is hoping the team and I get this poor soul wireless on line.

[bgaulke]

You should open a terminal and run the following command.  Then post the output, so we can know for sure what type of no-name wifi usb network interface card you purchased.

Code:

inxi -Fxx

Here's the result:

brian@brian-laptop:~$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: brian-laptop Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
          Desktop: Xfce 4.11.8 (Gtk 2.24.23) dm: lightdm Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine:  Mobo: IBM model: 2653GU7 Bios: IBM version: 1NET08WW (1.02 ) date: 11/29/2002
CPU:      Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - M CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (pae sse sse2) bmips: 2398.03 clocked at 1200.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV200/M7 GL [Mobility FireGL 7800] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c58
          X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: [email protected]
          GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C58) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2 GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:    Card: Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller
          driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: 1c00 18c0 bus-ID: 00:1f.5 chip-ID: 8086:2485
          Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:  Card-1: Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller
          driver: e100 ver: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 8000 bus-ID: 02:08.0 chip-ID: 8086:1031
          IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:02:8a:35:ff:07
          Card-2: Ralink usb-ID: 002-002 chip-ID: 148f:7601
          IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (12.7% used)
          1: id: /dev/sda model: IC25N040ATCS05 size: 40.0GB serial: CLP425F4GHR53A
Partition: ID: / size: 36G used: 4.7G (14%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 236M used: 45M (20%) fs: ext2
          ID: swap-1 size: 0.53GB used: 0.15GB (27%) fs: swap
RAID:      System: supported: N/A
          No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
          Unused Devices: none
Sensors:  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0C mobo: 25.0C
          Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3356
Info:      Processes: 165 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 311.8/494.8MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
          Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11 running in x-terminal-emul) inxi: 1.9.17
brian@brian-laptop:~$

As you can see, it says Ralink usb.

[bgaulke]

Error suggests you already have the driver in your system.

If so, why do I not see any wireless networks?  What else do I need to do?

[rokytnji]

Throw out a

Code:

sudo ifconfig -a

while you are here.

[bgaulke]

[size=1em]Hi,

Mediatek don't appear to list a Linux driver, maybe they did at some point..??[/size]

[size=1em]But if you look at this post, 2nd post down, somebody posted a solution,[/size]
[size=1em]with a link to a driver, and a number of people confirmed/said it worked.[/size]
[size=1em]This needs verifying by a LL techy bod, I don't know enough techy stuff...[/size]

[size=1em]GL...[/size]

I tried to extract using sudo tar and got this:

brian@brian-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo tar -xzvf rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar /usr/src/
[sudo] password for brian:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
brian@brian-laptop:~/Downloads$

What is the correct command?

Thanks

[bgaulke]

[quote author=Jerry link=topic=2294.msg17358#msg17358 date=1442779353]
Error suggests you already have the driver in your system.

Mine was a Out of the box enabled after switching out usb wireless "G" for a usb wireless "N"
on mine. All I had to do was change wireless interface preferences from wlan0 to what the current one was showing in

Code:

sudo ifconfig -a

[/quote]

Hi rokytnji.

What does this tell me relative to what you say you did?

brian@brian-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:8a:35:ff:07 
          inet addr:192.168.2.11  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fd00::202:8aff:fe35:ff07/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fd00::3852:dcf4:96ae:26f2/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:8aff:fe35:ff07/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:12941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:10519770 (10.5 MB)  TX bytes:1636689 (1.6 MB)

irda0    Link encap:IrLAP  HWaddr 00:00:00:00 
          NOARP  MTU:2048  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:99502 (99.5 KB)  TX bytes:99502 (99.5 KB)

brian@brian-laptop:~$

Nothing stands out as wireless related to me.

Thanks