Wireless drops on HP ENVY dv6 with RT3290 wireless, worked without problem prior to upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10, can it be fixed?
I have a HP ENVY dv6 Notebook PC with an AMD A10 quad core and RT3290 wireless. Since I upgraded from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10, the wireless connects, but then drops after a few minutes or longer, whether or not I am running openconnect to get through a VPN. If I attempt to run a remote X client (e.g. remote xterm) it drops. If I don't run an X client, it disconnects after a while, requiring a reload of the driver and reconnect.
Wireless info...
sudo lshw -c network *-network description: Wireless interface product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe vendor: Ralink corp. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 00 serial: 68:94:23:a7:09:cb width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.11.0-12-generic firmware=0.37 ip=192.168.1.115 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn resources: irq:55 memory:f0210000-f021ffffI have successfully built and installed the MediaTek driver with no luck on connecting, then the system hangs on reboot and I have to recover/undo the changes to boot successfully.
2013/11/10 update...
I discovered that running a popular speed test on the web is a quick way to get the wireless to disconnect during the upload portion of the test.
Using the aforementioned method to reproduce the problem, I have installed and tested the Linux Kernel 3.12 Release as documented here on my Ubuntu 13.10 system and thus far I have not see the problem with wireless disconnecting again...
1 Answer
Installation of the kernel update on Ubuntu 13.10 with 4 simple commands as documented in Linux Kernel 3.12 Released, Install it in Ubuntu... appears to fix the RT3290 wireless problem for now.
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sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.12.0-*.deb linux-image-3.12.0-*.deb11/14 Update - Been running for days on the 3.12 kernel and have not had a single wireless problem!
