Help:Ralink corp.Device 3290(internal wireless doesn't work at bt5 live usb)

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hi.i have problem with the internal wireless card at my laptop.please help me.
lspci
04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 3290
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0c)
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e0:3f:49:dd:fc:e7
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::e23f:49ff:fedd:fce7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22624 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:37797164 (37.7 MB) TX bytes:1792506 (1.7 MB)
Interrupt:50 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6545 (6.5 KB) TX bytes:6545 (6.5 KB)
lspci -v
04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 3290
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e055
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at ff910000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/5
Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 54-35-30-45-54-0d-00-00

5:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0c)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 200f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at ff800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=4
Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data <?> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-68-00-00-00-01
rfkill list
0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Capabilities: [170] #18
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

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Can you post the output from:

lspci -vnn | grep -i net

and

sudo lshw -C network
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hi,thanks for the answering me.that’s what u want:
lspci -vnn | grep -i net
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:3290]
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0c)
sudo lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Ralink corp.
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:ff910000-ff91ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 0c
serial: e0:3f:49:dd:fc:e7
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.101 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:50 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:ff800000-ff800fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff

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Okay, first can you confirm which distro/version we’re talking about … backtrack 5 ?

And is it always going to be a live session (not installed) ?

Because if so, you’re unlikely to get this working in a live session and have it persist across reboots.

5

its live and i use it in my usb device but i just know its backtrac 5 not R series just backtrack

6

Is the live session persistent ?

ie.If you create a file on your desktop, then reboot, is the file still on your desktop after the reboot ?

Seriously I doubt if you’ll get this to work in a live session … it’s going to require you to download and install the necessary build tools and dependencies, then download and compile the driver this will either be lost every time you boot and require doing again, or if your live session is persisitent drivers don’t normally load well from a persistence file.

Add to that the fact that Backtrack is a royal pain to compile things under because if the way they configure package names and repos, and you’re probably wasting your time.