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I have upgraded from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10 and now my WiFi doesn't work. It takes a lot of time to connect but when connected, connection is quickly lost again. In Ubuntu 13.04 worked fine.

Here are some outputs:

lspci | grep Wireless

01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

sudo rfkill list

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

lsmod | grep rt2800

rt2800pci              18966  0 
rt2800lib              95449  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00pci              13287  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00mmio             13661  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib              56053  4 rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rt2800pci,rt2x00mmio
mac80211              634661  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800lib
eeprom_93cx6           13344  1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt              12707  1 rt2800lib

dmesg | grep rt2800

[   19.959959] rt2800pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X

modinfo rt2800pci | grep 3290

alias:          pci:v00001814d00003290sv*sd*bc*sc*i*

Solution for me:

It appears a Ubuntu bug, I have found a solution here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1049466

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Thanks

Francisco Moya
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  • This is all fine. Did you check that modinfo rt2800pci | grep 3290 gave you the output below? – MariusMatutiae Oct 27 '13 at 10:59
  • I have updated my post. – MariusMatutiae Oct 27 '13 at 14:42
  • I found [this answer](http://askubuntu.com/questions/253632/how-do-i-get-a-ralink-rt3290-wireless-card-working) for the same wireless card. The error happens with an older version of ubuntu (12.10 to 13.04) but it seems to be the same problem. Give it a try. – p2kmgcl Oct 27 '13 at 13:12
  • I have tried that answer and It fails when I do the make command. I have copied the terminal output here: http://pastebin.com/JeKm4n5J – Francisco Moya Oct 27 '13 at 14:48

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It should be working out of the box with the driver rt2800pci. On my system, 

modinfo rt2800pci | grep 3290
alias:          pci:v00001814d00003290sv*sd*bc*sc*i*

which shows the correct Vendr and Product id, see this Wikidevi page. You should first check that you get the same output, then please proceed with these commands:

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo rmmod rt2800pci
sudo modprobe rt2800pci

This should take care of it.

Edit: please post the output of 

sudo rfkill list
lsmod | grep rt2800
dmesg | grep rt2800

Edit: we may try to use the backport driver. You should issue these commands:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2013/10/18/backports-20131018.tar.gz 
tar xvfz backports-20131018.tar.gz
cd backports-20131018
make defconfig-wifi
make
sudo make install
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