HP Pavilion G6 Wireless, Won't Turn on In Linux Mint

[michaeljwjr]

Or any other version of Linux. Worked in Windows before I removed Windows 8, now in any version of linux I've installed I get nothing. The F12 button is supposed to control it, and I am getting nothing, the light stays orange. Has anyone been able to get this working in linux?

Output of lspci:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Complex
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Trinity [Radeon HD 7520G]
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 9902
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port
00:10.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB XHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:10.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB XHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 43a0
00:15.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 43a1
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 5
02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 3290
02:00.1 Bluetooth: Ralink corp. Device 3298
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)


[AlbertP]

Please post the output of these commands:

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inxi -N
rfkill list

[michaeljwjr]

Please post the output of these commands:

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inxi -N
rfkill list

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michaeljwjr@michaeljwjr-laptop ~ $ inxi -N
Network:   Card-1: Ralink Device 3290
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169


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michaeljwjr@michaeljwjr-laptop ~ $ rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no



[AlbertP]

Please download the driver for RT3290 from here: http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support ... php?sn=501

[Communist]

Please download the driver for RT3290 from here: http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support ... php?sn=501

I'm quite sorry, how would I go about this? I have the same issue as the OP.

I looked everywhere for a tutorial.

[AlbertP]

@ Communist, please open a new topic. It's quite well possible that your laptop does not have an RT3290 wifi card.

[michaeljwjr]

I still have the rt3290 and it still does not work. I've even updated my kernel to 3.7 and 3.8. mintwifi works just fine, but any browsing I do locks up my computer.

[AlbertP]

@ michaeljwjr: If you manually installed a driver (like the one I linked) you need to install it again when you have switched to a newer kernel version.
Please download & install the RT3290 driver I have linked in this topic (I don't care on which kernel version you're doing it, but remember that it only installs the driver into the kernel that's currently running).

[michaeljwjr]

@ michaeljwjr: If you manually installed a driver (like the one I linked) you need to install it again when you have switched to a newer kernel version.
Please download & install the RT3290 driver I have linked in this topic (I don't care on which kernel version you're doing it, but remember that it only installs the driver into the kernel that's currently running).

I've done that on each individual kernel, same issue on each kernel.

[michaeljwjr]

I've given up on getting it to work in Linux Mint 14 and ubuntu 12.10. I'm sure it works in Mint 13, but I just dropped down to Ubuntu 12.04 and it's working flawlessly now.

Will give it some time before upgrading again.