James Sorry to be a nuisance, but I'm not all that well-versed in the ways of Ubuntu and find that "untar" is not a known command. Could you please give me chapter and verse (i.e. a list of commands) to allow me to do all of this? My user name is david.
Thanks David On 22/10/13 02:06, James Dafoe wrote: > Found another possible workaround if you want to use vendor's > proprietary drivers. Someone over at archlinux created a patch for > mediatek's driver: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rt3290sta- > dkms/?setlang=ru > > Original Driver: > http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01-1_windowsDetail.php?sn=5033 > Patch: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0kaibq0f4to0k2/rt3290sta.patch > > I wrapped it up into DKMS so it can easily get rebuilt on kernel > upgrades. Download and untar into /usr/src and then run: > > dkms install -m rt3290sta -v 2.6.0.0 > modprobe rt3290sta > > This will: > 1 - Add it to DKMS tree > 2 - Build the rt3290sta driver with the patch > 2 - Install it to the kernel driver tree > 3 - Blacklist original kernel drivers rt2x00pci & rt2800pci from loading by > creating /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ralink.conf > > To remove: > dkms remove t3290sta/2.6.0.0 -all > > ** Attachment added: "rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar.gz" > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+attachment/3886782/+files/rt3290sta-2.6.0.0.dkms.tar.gz > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049466 Title: Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Quantal: Invalid Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in “linux” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “linux-firmware” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “linux” package in Baltix: Opinion Status in “linux” package in Gentoo Linux: New Bug description: RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw. commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563 Author: Woody Hung <woody.h...@mediatek.com> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800 rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4 This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in rt2x00. It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase. And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different efuse data offset of rt3290. Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <woody.h...@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp