-Solved- Assistance with installing chipset drivers

Legacy Netrunner 14.x
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Based on reading this thread: http://forums.netrunner-os.com/showthread.php?tid=16118 it sounds like I need to install my wireless chipset drivers

here is the out of lspci:
02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 [802.11 b/g/n 1T1R G-band PCI Express Single Chip]

Presumably I just need to know the name of the package in order to apt-get it. If that is all I need, another question would be: Is there a place to find the names of packages that can be downloaded/installed with apt-get?

A potential solution I found is using another persons repository for ralink wireless drivers described on this page:
http://www.techytalk.info/ubuntu/ralink-wireless/

-edit- Additional info: After install of Netrunner 14, the wireless card works, but it is horrendously slow. A speed test onlike gives back <3mbps, while the wired connection through the same router gives >75mbps.

Any info is appreciated.

-VQ

-edit- Also have a TP-Link WN823N USB wireless card that would require a RTL8192CU driver. WOuldn’t mind some insight on installing that driver correctly too.

2

Did you start the driver manager already? It was made exactly for that reason and might recommend installing the correct driver package.

3

Yes, it only shows three different drivers for my video card. Here is a screen shot:
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I have also connected my Alfa wirelss card (AWUS036H) and it automaticallly works, but is also extremely slow:

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This is while the connection details of the network I am connected to sate 65-75MBit/s

4

All problematic wifi chips you have there. You don’t have a spare atheros wifi card lying around?

As for the ralink card here is an instruction that should work with netrunner : http://askubuntu.com/questions/286187/wifi-is-very-slow-card-rt5390

5

No, I don’t have any Atheros cards. All of these cards work grand in other Debian compliant OSs I have used. I will give your link above a shot. Looks promising, thank you.
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-edit- where is this pci_main_dev.c file? I have navigated to /sys/bus/pci/0000:02:00.0 and I don’t see any such file to point this patch to.
-edit2- disregard previous edit
Assistance greatly appreciated.

6

Good to go. Only getting 4.5-5 MBi/s through wireless but I don’t think it’s a driver issue anymore. Thank you very much leszek.

7

Maybe restarting the router helps. Most non running ddwrt or openwrt are crap and this is necessary sometimes.