Ralink rt3290 wireless 802.11bgn WIFI adapter driver issue not connecting to WIFI

[Ravnratz]

Hey my Laptop model HP Pavillion g6

I recently serviced this laptop for repair. It uses a Ralink rt3290 wireless 802.11bgn WIFI adapter. I recently got a Jio fiber connection which has both 2.4 and 5G connections.

1) My laptop doesn't show the 5G connection 
2) It does not connect to the 2.4 as well , even when credentials are correct

My questions are 

1) Does updating the driver fix this ?
2) If no How do i connect to the internet

Please give me a solution

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

1.  The Ralink RT290 wireless adapter only works on the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band, so nothing is wrong there.

2.  The only suggestion I can offer would be to make sure your notebook has the last Wi-Fi driver for W8.1 that Ralink released to HP:

MediaTek (Ralink) Wireless LAN (WLAN) Adapter

5.0.50.0

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp69501-70000/sp69543.exe 

[Ravnratz]

Will having the latest driver work ?

I'll try in a few hours and update you 

Thanks

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Hopefully, it will.