Unsupported WiFI

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    I have 2 Zotac AD04 units with Ralink RT3290 chipset and I attempted to install LibreElec on one tonight but, get no WiFi. After surfing the github, I found a commit where it said the driver was removed. Is there any way to either get it added back in or pointed to a prior version that had it? Thanks in advance.

    firmware: install wifi firmware from linux-firmware, cleanup wlan-fir… by MilhouseVH · Pull Request #1635 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

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    and the following files will no longer be installed:

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rt3071.bin
rt3290.bin
rt73.bin
ti-connectivity/LICENCE.ti-connectivity
...

    Upon Installing and loading into LibreElec.. the Wizard at the beginning shows no networks unless using eth0. After finding that commit, thinking that to be the reasoning.

    Edited once, last by Venoryk (January 12, 2019 at 4:18 AM).

    I apologize for the delay in responding.. it's been a hectic weekend... I've SSH'd into the box and did a find rt3290.bin but says no such file. I've also tried to navigate to the spot you said to place it and there's no firmware folder inside of /.config/.

    Running dmesg from a fresh install results in

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    [    5.738159] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3290, rev 0003 detected
[    5.764013] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 3290 detected
[    5.772983] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[    5.838140] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt3290.bin'
[    5.839042] rt2800pci 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for rt3290.bin failed with error -2
[    5.839049] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware

    Any assistance would be appreciated.

    Edit:

    After some searching around... I was to download the rt3290.bin to /storage/.config/firmware after making the directory using

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    wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/rt3290.bin

    Rebooted.. and now my WiFi is working. I appreciate your help :)

    Edited once, last by Venoryk (January 15, 2019 at 3:28 AM).

    Hello, i have Zotac id82 and ad02 with this wifi chipset. With rt3290 remove, i can’t upgrade to libreelec 8.2.x, with 8.0.2 wifi is working.

    Another vote for re-adding this and benefit latest libreelec version.

    Thanks in advance.

    Edited once, last by Flanigan (January 26, 2019 at 9:52 PM).