rt3290 wifi ubuntu reactivate 16.04

Question

I have this ralink 3290 wifi. it s not working well. I did the first reinstallation and had it working on the fly. now by rebooting wifi dies or is not alive at anyway.

here is some outputs

abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ lspci | grep Network
02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$

abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network UNCLAIMED     
       description: Network controller
       product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f0210000-f021ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eno1
       version: 07
       serial: a0:d3:c1:63:0d:0d
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 ip=192.168.0.105 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:31 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff
abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$

anybody to help me activate this correctly ? thank you by advance.

Comments are not for extended discussion; the entire conversation that was taking place here has been moved to chat. — Thomas Ward, Dec 22 '16 at 00:26
Could you please add the output of lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2 to see which driver is in use and the output of iw dev to see if there is a interface name. — Hölderlin, Dec 23 '16 at 05:18
Please edit your question and replace your long output with the short summary of lspci -nnk | grep -i network -A2, rfkill list and iw dev | grep Interface. — Hölderlin, Dec 25 '16 at 14:36
abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -i network -A2 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290] DeviceName: Ralink WLAN Ralink RT3290LE Roma 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter [103c:18ec] abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~$ rfkill list abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~$ iw dev abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~$ iw dev | grep Interface abcdef@abcdef-HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC:~$ — JFab, Dec 25 '16 at 18:51
i have limited space on this service. the paste link shows it clean — JFab, Dec 25 '16 at 23:18
maybe I can help... if you able to edit your question and paste the infos that I asked for (lspci -nnk | grep -i network -A2, rfkill list wifi, lsmod). — Hölderlin, Dec 26 '16 at 21:57
well i answer here your command line requests again. my question is why the wifi is not working ? I can not see the device in the options to list wifi networks... — JFab, Dec 29 '16 at 21:34
here is the answer to your command line requests. My question is why wifi is still not working ok ? — JFab, Dec 29 '16 at 21:36
@JFab, why are you not able to edit your question to add all the informations I asked for? — Hölderlin, Jan 03 '17 at 18:45
well you have the answer listed in the paste link ... what do u need more ? — JFab, Jan 03 '17 at 21:46
I need that output in a well formed question. With respect to your question, I mean the part above all the comments. — Hölderlin, Jan 05 '17 at 19:53
Hello I gave you all the details output on the paste link upwise. what went wrong please state me ? — JFab, Jan 06 '17 at 12:12
is more easy actually I have now ordered an usb network wifi dongle as this sheeet of ralink won t get up.... — JFab, Jan 06 '17 at 12:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

I am using asus X450cc and my wifi card it rt3290. This is what worked for me

I downloaded the rt3290 Driver from here, extracted it and entered the directory and ran

sudo ./run.sh

This requires a working ethernet connection.

Then I also tried How to install wifi driver Ralink RT3290 and How do I get an RT3290 wireless card to work?

Then I tried:

rfkill unblock all

I also tried:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter
sudo reboot

Finally I tried:

sudo ifconfig enp3s0f0 up  #(here this is my logical name of wifi change it to your wifi name)
sudo pm-suspend

Now my wifi is working, although I still have a tiny problem; every time I boot into Ubuntu I need to suspend and resume, only then does my wifi work.

rt3290 wifi ubuntu reactivate 16.04

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