For the Ralink RT3090BC4 (802.11b/g/n + Bluetooth Combo) commonly found in HP laptops, here are the driver details and installation options based on a 2014-2016 search: Recommended Driver Versions
His heart rate quickened slightly. He knew that vendor code. 1814 was Ralink. Ralink Technology Corp., the Taiwanese semiconductor company that had been gobbling up market share by providing cheap, competent wireless chipsets for budget laptops. But this ID, 3090 , was specific. It was the heart of a combo card.
Late at night, illuminated by the glow of a tablet, Eli found a single link to an old HP Community archive [14]. He downloaded the file, a tiny 11.7MB package from 2014 [16]. He forced the manual installation, overriding the "unsupported" warnings.
sudo apt update sudo apt install firmware-ralink sudo modprobe rt2800pci