Wireless drops on HP ENVY dv6 with RT3290 wireless, worked without problem prior to upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10, can it be fixed?
- by Tim
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-f021ffff
I 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.