Getting wireless to work in HP Mini 110 with Ubuntu 10.10

In my last post I had mention about wireless problem in my netbook. Today, due to my assignment, I really need to get my wireless working. So, I google the problems and comeout with few solution. I tried the solution, and hell yeah, its work. wooohooo.

First of all, check the wireless card. My wireless card is Ralink RT3090. And ubuntu is using rt2800 for the wireless card, of course the wireless will not work, because it is not using the correct driver.

Now, the first step is to add the repository of the driver:

Open the terminal and type:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090

Do not update yet, now close the terminal and go to System > Administration > Software Sources

Change the Maverick to Lucid,

edit the last line to ubuntu lucid instead of ubuntu maverick

change the distribution to lucid instead of maverick, then click ok

The software sources will now updating itself. Let it be, then it will close by itself when the update process already finish.

Now, open the terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update

After the update finished, type:

sudo apt-get install rt3090-dkms 

You might think the wireless now, will work after you have reboot the netbook, but sorry to say, NO, its not working yet, because the rt2800 driver is still working. We need to blacklist the rt2800 driver in order for the rt3090 driver to work properly.

Assuming you haven't close your terminal yet, type the following into the terminal:

gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

This command will open the blacklist.conf file and you need to add the following into the file:

#Blacklist RaLink drivers

blacklist rt2800pci

blacklist rt2800lib

blacklist rt2x00usb

blacklist rt2x00pci

blacklist rt2x00lib

Then save the file and close it.

Now, restart your netbook and try to connect to the wireless. It should be working now(I hope).
This solution is taken from here and here.

That all for today. I'm super happy since my ubuntu netbook can now connect to the wireless.

#edit 30/12/10 ; please leave comment if the solution is not working or applicable, and also if you guys have some times to spare, share you experience on linux with me.