Recently I installed Debian 7.6 Wheezy (6th update) on a laptop HP Sleekbook 14 with a WLAN Adapter Ralink RT3290. Unfortunately, the device couldn't be recognized by the default kernel and so the device didn't work. After searching so many times I didn't get the solution yet, but finally with my own experiment I could make the device work on Debian 7 Wheezy ( Weeeeeee! ) Here are the steps I've done to make Ralink RT3290 WLAN works on Debian Wheezy : 1. Enable wheezy-backports repository and update cache deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main # apt-get update 2. Install latest backported kernel # apt-get install linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-686-pae (use synaptic package manager for the easier way) 3. Download the Debian Jessie's firmware-ralink package Link : https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-ralink 4. Extract the package firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb by right click and Extract Here 5. Go to the extrac...
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