Ralink driver no longer working after install of usb wifi

[thelynx]

Hello,

I have an LG X130 netbook (running Mageia 2) and I had the once-troublesome Ralink rt3090 pci wifi card working just fine after installing the ralink-firmware package. I was rather unhappy with the range it had, so i purchased a usb dongle -- TP-Link TL-WN722N. It didn't work out of the box, but after installing kernel-firmware-nonfree, it worked just fine. Unfortunately, now the rt3090 no longer worksand does not show up in network manager (both when the usb dongle is plugged in and when it is not) , but it is detected when I run lspci, though there is no 'kernel driver in use' entry. When I run lsmod | grep rt2 or rt3, it outputs nothing.

I tried reinstalling the ralink-firmware but that failed to work. Would it be possible that one of the modules in the kernel-firmware-nonfree is conflicting with the RT3090 module? How would one go about solving this problem?

Thank you in advance for any advice.

[sander85]

How would one go about solving this problem?

I would check dmesg output and see if any errors about rt* stuff pop up there.

[thelynx]

thanks sander85

I checked out dmesg and it came up with nothing relating to ralink drivers.

It seems rt2800sta was blacklisted, though I honestly can't remember doing so and I certainly didn't do it after installing the drivers for the TP-Link usb wireless. Weird. Anyway, both wireless devices are available now.

Cheers

[linuxero]

Sometimes after installing the modules at next boot they work perfectly..this happens to me on an e-machines with broadcom wifi. Not even through MCC would it work, but after rebooting it seems the modules is loaded correctly..!