This has been a huge problem and very disruptive while working since I installed the os a week ago. (I had 64b installed but for other reasons, I dropped it to 32b for stability, but the wifi dropping issue increased significantly.
Most noticable instances are when dropbox is trying to sync, mint update is attempting to download updates, I'm attempting to download large files, I'm attempting to do more then one thing at a time, I clicked on a link to view an image, I attempted to use AirDoid (this caused so many disconnects in a row that I had to reboot), etc.
I see alot of posts for realtek stuff and belkin seems to go unanswered, so here goes nothing.
Wifi Drops while writing this post 4
Now for details:
I've got an underpowered asus 64b (so it says) processor with 2gb of ram.
I'm currently running Mint 16 Petra 32bit. The os was just installed last week and fully updated.
I have a belkin usb wireless dongle thing. It worked completely fine as plug and play on a windows 7 64b machine, never had any problems with it. ever.
While it randomly decides to disconnect, my laptop, running mavericks, never drops wifi, so I am lead to believe it's definately a mint thing.
Now for various codes I found in a few other threads:
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sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"AppleKaboomers G" Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:24:B2:1D:1D:2E
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:1B3F-F909-11 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=74/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:72:a7:18:40
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20828 (20.8 KB) TX bytes:20828 (20.8 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:86:3b:43:3e:cd
inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a86:3bff:fe43:3ecd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1471 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1430775 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:307297 (307.2 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.40
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.44
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.45
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.49
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.50
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.54
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.55
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.59
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.20
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.24
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.25
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.29
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.30
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.34
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.35
Name: google.com
Address: 204.186.215.39
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ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:72:a7:18:40 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 08:86:3b:43:3e:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.14/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::a86:3bff:fe43:3ecd/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
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ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:72:a7:18:40 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DORMANT qlen 1000
link/ether 08:86:3b:43:3e:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: MCP77 Ethernet
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: a2
serial: 00:1d:72:a7:18:40
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 latency=0 link=no maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes port=MII
resources: irq:41 memory:fe02b000-fe02bfff ioport:d800(size=8) memory:fe02a000-fe02a0ff memory:fe029000-fe02900f
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 08:86:3b:43:3e:cd
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=192.168.1.14 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
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lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 SATA controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] AHCI Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)
04:00.0 Communication controller: LSI Corporation Device 0630 (rev 01)
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
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uname -r
3.11.0-12-generic