I have an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 wifi card and I'm running Mint 17.2 64bit with Linux Kernel 3.16.0-38-generic.
My problem is that about 10 minutes after connecting to my (WPA-protected) wifi network, I will get an error saying "connection failed." I'll lose the connection and all password-protected connections will disappear from my network manager. To fix it, I just disable and re-enable wifi (both the network manager toggle and the hardware toggle work). The result is that I have to toggle my wifi every 10 minutes to stay online, which isn't preferable.
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lspci -vv -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 AGN
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 54
Region 0: Memory at f1b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
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sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
==> PCI ID = 8086:0091 (rev 34)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"DosHopper"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:18:E7:C8:2A:28
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-39 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:28 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 14:fe:b5:b1:9e:e6
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:3057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:540226 (540.2 KB) TX bytes:540226 (540.2 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:53:2e:12:a8:0e
inet addr:192.168.0.135 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::8a53:2eff:fe12:a80e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:114375 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:123976202 (123.9 MB) TX bytes:8422984 (8.4 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.6
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.8
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.0
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.14
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.4
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.5
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.2
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.9
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.3
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.7
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.123.1
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sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
==> PCI ID = 8086:0091 (rev 34)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 14:fe:b5:b1:9e:e6
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:3091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:543332 (543.3 KB) TX bytes:543332 (543.3 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:53:2e:12:a8:0e
inet6 addr: fe80::8a53:2eff:fe12:a80e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:116754 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:125786943 (125.7 MB) TX bytes:8724552 (8.7 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
^C