Turns out Ubuntu Studio supports my wireless adaptet "out of the box", so there
was no need for any workarounds. I went ahead and reinstalled Windows and
haven't set up a dual boot yet, but I now have a usable live boot USB stick for
further testing.
—
Marc Sabatella
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Angel Candelaria <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi again Marc.
> Seraching for "Ralink 5390 Ubuntu" I found these references that could
> be helpful on your case:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/303415/ubuntu-13-04-ralink-rt5390-wont-work-after-upgrade
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QY46JReJ1s
> Best of luck.
> On 11/13/2013 10:28 AM, Marc Sabatella wrote:
>> Thanks for the comtinued advice! I decided to bite the bullet and do
>> a clean windows install for now and am gradually getting things back
>> together (MuseScore was literally the first thing I installed). I
>> think I will also give Ubuntu Studio a shot. If not as a dual boot on
>> this computer, then on an old one, which might be more convenient anyhow.
>>
>> FWIW, my current computer is an HP Pavilion g6 series, which uses the
>> Ralink 5390 (?) internal wireless adapter. There is no physical
>> on/off switch for it, but the F12 key is supposed to toggle it.
>> Problem is, under Linux, it doesn't, so wireless shows as having been
>> turned off by hardware switch and nothing works to turn it back on. I
>> had the same issue when I tried upgrading to Windows 8 earlier this
>> year, and even after installing an updated BIOS still couldn't get
>> wireless to turn on. So I had to do a clean reinstall back to 7.
>> Which at least meant I knew I could do it this time too. Searching
>> around, I see lots of references to people with the same problem with
>> this model, but no clear solutions (plenty of solution to
>> similar-looking but actually different problems, though).
>>
>>
>>
>> Feel free to contact me offline if you have any specific advice
>> regarding my wireless situation, but I think simply installing Ubuntu
>> Studio on a different computer probably makes more sense for now.
>>
>> —
>> Marc Sabatella
>>
>>
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