I am a long-time Linux user (Caldera 1.2 --> Mandrake 8.0 --> Mandriva 2006 --> Mageia with some ubuntu along the way). I installed Mint (KDE, 64-bit, 18.3) and I do like the neat, clean interface. But I am having problems with the wireless interface. Sometimes it will be detected, sometimes it will be dropped, and sometimes it won't be detected. I hope you can help.
Here is inxi -Fxn:
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mike@mikes-amd-8150 ~ $ inxi -Fxn
System: Host: mikes-amd-8150 Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Machine: Mobo: AsRock model: 970A-G/3.1 Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.20 date: 01/12/2016
CPU: Octa core AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache: 16384 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 57602
clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 2100 MHz 4: 2100 MHz 5: 1400 MHz 6: 1400 MHz 7: 1400 MHz 8: 1400 MHz
Graphics: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD6770] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-38-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA0 driver: snd_hda_interl bus-ID: 04:00.0
Network: Card-1 Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlp4s0state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 70:85:c2:5d:9e:85
Drives: HDD Total Size: 620.1 GB (1.8% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 500.1 GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: KINGSTON_SUV400S size: 120.0 GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 32G used: 6.2G (21%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-2: /home size: 75G used: 465M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb6
ID-3 swap-1 size: 4.18 GB used: 0.00 GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 12.6C mobo N/A gpu: 29.0
Info: Processes: 229 Uptime: 40 min Memory: 1151.6/16015.6 MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
Second, when I do have the wireless working, I occasionally see 1 KB/sec, very rarely 2KB/sec., and extremely rarely 3 KB/sec. Never faster than that, and mostly 0K/sec). The speed I have from my ISP is like 6-20 MB/sec, I don't remember. I routinely get 400 KB/sec. and higher with ethernet (Win7 64-bit or any linux flavor). (So my very old ARRIS CM550A is not the bottleneck.)
Can anybody help me get things working here?
(I am also having problems seeing the SSD inside the USB enclosure plugged into my Linksys WRT-AC1200 [stock firmware], but that will be a different post. Interesting, when I can see the drive and examine its contents, there is no entry in /etc/fstab. Maybe this is no longer listed in fstab because systemd or the kernel handle it differently now, I can't keep up with all the changes.)