Help with RT3090 driver?

[J05H11E]

Afternoon guys,

I have just installed Linux Mint 13. Unfortunately wifi is not working out of the box

I have a HP G62 with the Ralink RT3090 wireless chipset.

Just starting out with Linux so some "noddy" instructions would be appreciated


Thanks in advance,
J

[AlbertP]

Please post the output of these commands in terminal:

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inxi -N
rfkill list

[J05H11E]

# inxi -N #

Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169
Card-2: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
Card-3: Ralink



# RFKILL LIST #

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[AlbertP]

Ok, your laptop's wifi switch is turned off (or at least seems to be). The rt3090 is not to blame here.

[Yoshi2889]

Most laptops these days have a LED indicator that says whether Wifi is turned on or off. Do you have one? And if so, does it mark your Wifi as Off? If so (lol), enable it in System Settings -> Network -> Wireless, if that's possible.