After a standard cache update takes place, Driver Manager displays an overview of device components that require a driver. Here hopefully a driver for your wireless adapter will be available. In the case of my macBook it did.
config RT2800PCI_RT53XX bool "rt2800pci - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL default y ---help--- This adds support for rt53xx wireless chipset family to the rt2800pci driver. Supported chips: RT5390
rt5390 driver linux 12
As you may understand, having to carry an out of tree driver (ie 539x) for the life of an LTS release is not our ideal solution. If the in tree driver could be fixed instead, that would be best and everyone (not just Ubuntu) would benefit from the solution. Thanks in advance.
I am running Precise on an HP dm1z, which has the Ralink 5390 wireless chip and everything works out of the box. I used to manually build the above mentioned driver, but was able to stop doing that a while ago. I can't remember if Oneiric supported this chip, but I know for a fact that Precise does.
The old driver is working now (previously wasn't at all, butsupposedly was there!!! Do they disable themselves miraculously in thekernel? Or did someone added a line for the OLD drivers that somehowworks now with a very similar rt539xpci ?.
Anyway, its rt2800pci and its working. I am so happy now, although Ihighly suspect its NOT the proper driver and for LTS, I think itshould. For this card Ralink provides Linux drivers rt590xpci 2.5.0.3(09/26/2011). And its a separate, different download from rt2800pci.
I'm not sure why things wouldn't have been working for you earlier, it's hard to say. But given your feedback that the rt2800pci driver is working for you now, I'm going to close this bug. As I had mentioned previously, carrying an out of tree driver is a large maintenance burden on the team. Given that the in-tree driver is working well for you there doesn't seem to be any reason to support carrying the out of tree driver. I would also encourage you to contact the rt539xpci driver authors and request they submit the driver upstream. That way everyone can benefit by it being available in the upstream kernel. Thanks.
As alphaniner says, please change the thread title, your "issue" is exclusively with the kernel. I put that in quotes, because there's no issue here, the explanation is very simple - the lts kernel is too old, it's rt2800pci driver doesn't support 53xx cards. It has the rt2860sta driver though, maybe that one works.
If the Intel wireless adapter you are using is listed below, please upgrade your driver to Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software version = 20.70.0 (or higher version) to resolve the connectivity issues in 802.11ax routers.
Step 3. Check whether your operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit, and click to download the corresponding driver to your PC/notebook. Please read the detailed description marked in the red box to make sure you have a successful installation.
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Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function (firmware, device drivers). This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network cards. 2ff7e9595c
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