[ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

[Mark Einon]

On 5 February 2013 10:51, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the double dash in --nn is wrong, should be a single dash.

Yep, sorry about that - my bad.

> -nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names and numbers)
> lspci -nn
> 04.00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290
> Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290]
>
> By the way, do you think I should uninstall rt3562sta? You gave the
> instruction for doing so in a previous message.

This is good, thanks. It appears that the chip you have is quite new,
and is only supported for newer kernels - for some reason I had it in
my head that the laptop was quite old. As you have a 2.5.0 kernel, I
assume you're on 12.04 - so I think this may help, short of compiling
a newer kernel:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2104690

or, looks like the same post:

http://droid-hive.com/index.php?/topic/1272-how-to-install-ralink-rt3290-wireless-drivers-on-ubuntu-1204/

Cheers,

Mark