Ralink RT2790 wireless - device is not active (driver problem?)

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Hello all,
did anybody succeed to use RT2790 wireless device?

I am trying to install OpenWRT 19.07.5 to ASUS EeePC and cannot get wireless working.

lspci returns:
01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe

System log displays:

Sat Dec 19 16:35:32 2020 kern.info kernel: [    9.631467] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 2872, rev 0200 detected
Sat Dec 19 16:35:32 2020 kern.info kernel: [    9.656307] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 0003 detected
Sat Dec 19 16:35:32 2020 kern.debug kernel: [    9.661298] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[...]
Sat Dec 19 16:35:34 2020 user.notice mac80211: Failed command: iw phy phy0 set antenna 0xffffffff 0xffffffff
Sat Dec 19 16:35:34 2020 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (1981): command failed: Not supported (-95)
Sat Dec 19 16:35:34 2020 user.notice mac80211: Failed command: iw phy phy0 set distance 0

and radio0 device (Generic MAC80211 802.11bgn) is marked as not active in LUCI.

I suppose this is a driver issue. I am quite a newbie (despite using Chaos Calmer on my TP-Link router), so maybe the solution is obvious for you the pros...

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Sorry guys, no driver issue, I just had no hostapd installed.
All OK now.

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Good evening, i just arrived the first time to OpenWrt, i have an ASUS Eee Box B202, i am trying OpenWrt, when lspci i have:

root@OpenWrt:~# lspci
...
03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

I do not have wireless yet.
I did not even have the /etc/config/wireless file
SO i did # wifi config and i have now an empty Wireless File.
I installed:

  • kmod-rt2x00-pci 4.14.209+4.19.137-1-2 2.8 KB Ralink Drivers for RT2x00 cards (PCI)
  • wireless-tools 29-6 21.2 KB This package contains a collection of tools for configuring wireless…
  • hostapd 2019-08-08-ca8c2bd2-4
  • hostapd-utils 2019-08-08-ca8c2bd2-4

I still do not have wireless,
Can you help me ???
I am newbie to linux,, so anything is welcome.
Thanks in advance

PD. When i use the iw list command i have empty reply so i don't know how to link driver to hardware... Forgive for my short linux knowledge.

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Install kmod-rt2800-pci package

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Good morning,, i installed the module you recomm3nded:
Install kmod-rt2800-pci package..
Everything is ok now,, i am just testing the os, my next job is to add a usb-ethernet adapter,,,
Thanks a lot
Best regards

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