I'm trying to get my Alfa Networks WIFI dongle (based on RT3070) to work, but it seems that the necessary package (firmware-ralink) is not availabe in elementary os. It is in the non-free debian repo. Can i add the repo and install the package? Does anybody know what i could do to get t to work? Any help is very much appreciated! Thanks
A solution to my problem: As I am unable to use the onboard and usb devices at the same time, it works to un-check the auto connect on the onboard device. Then the Alfa is able to connect to a given network.
Update: I tried to install by downloading the .deb file from the debian repo and install via apt. here is the output:
sudo apt install ./firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb
[sudo] password for XXXX:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'firmware-ralink' instead of './firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firmware-ralink
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/22.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 103 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/XXXX/Downloads/firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb firmware-ralink all 0.43 [22.2 kB]
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-ralink.
(Reading database ... 305479 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-ralink (0.43) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /home/XXXX/Downloads/firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/rt3290.bin', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.157.8
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/XXXX/Downloads/firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
UPDATE: here is the output of
lshw -c net; rfkill list all
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: enp0s25
version: 04
serial: b0:99:28:cd:78:9d
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k duplex=full firmware=0.13-4 ip=10.42.0.182 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:29 memory:e2600000-e261ffff memory:e262b000-e262bfff ioport:3080(size=32)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
logical name: wlp10s0
version: 01
serial: e0:ca:94:74:87:40
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=4.4.0-77-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.10.125 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:18 memory:e0500000-e050ffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:1.4
logical name: wlx00c0ca58180d
serial: 00:c0:ca:58:18:0d
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.4.0-77-generic firmware=0.29 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy2: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
UPDATE:
the output of iwlist scan
wlx00c0ca58180d Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 5C:F4:AB:09:D3:B3
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=31/70 Signal level=-79 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"Internet_B0"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=000001d780c847a5
Extra: Last beacon: 4132ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000B496E7465726E65745F4230
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 2F0104
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: 0B050200140000
IE: Unknown: 2D1AAC181FFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1601000400000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 7F03000008
IE: Unknown: DD860050F204104A0001101044000102103B0001031047001097527829238BBD6979A4F2FC6944A83B102100094D69747261537461721023000C564D47313331322D423330421024000C564D47313331322D4233304210420007393633363847571054000800060050F20400011011000C564D47313331322D42333042100800020084103C000101
IE: Unknown: DD090010180202000C0000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
Cell 02 - Address: 00:4F:62:26:BB:95
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=35/70 Signal level=-75 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"Atelier-3"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000024b85df320
Extra: Last beacon: 4612ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00094174656C6965722D33
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: DD0700E04C01020300
Cell 03 - Address: F0:9F:C2:2A:5B:AD
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=51/70 Signal level=-59 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"Atelier-2"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000015f1a1f93b8
Extra: Last beacon: 4612ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00094174656C6965722D32
IE: Unknown: 010882848B968C129824
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 050400010004
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 3204B048606C
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101000003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F
IE: Unknown: DD1300156D00010100010227E58106F09FC2295BAD
lshw -c net; rfkill list alliwlist scan