Linux Elementary OS Constantly WiFi Dropping

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I searched a little more, and found out this solution, which worked perfectly!

Since I had a Realtek wireless card 3290, I found the solution here: LINK

The first one example,

NOT OFFICIAL DRIVERS FOR Kernel 4.X

This solved my problems! Hope this post will help others too.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • sebamed
    sebamed over 1 year

    Two days ago, I installed Elementary OS on my ASUS K550L. Everything looks just perfect, but since first hour of exploring the system, my WiFi connection keeps dropping every several minutes.

    I checked and restarted my router, but no solution. After searching the internet for solution, I got THIS, but there is a part with editing text file:

    gksu gedit /etc/pm/config.d/unload_modules
    

    and there is an error message popping out when I try to save the file, saying that the file does not exist.

    I'm really loving this distro, but as I'm new to Linux, I can't seem to find a good solution for this problem.

    Also, in some posts I saw people update their question with

    sudo lshw -C network
    

    so, mine is here:

        *-network               
           description: Ethernet interface
           product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
           physical id: 0.1
           bus info: pci@0000:02:00.1
           logical name: enp2s0f1
           version: 12
           serial: 10:c3:7b:27:bb:b5
           size: 10Mbit/s
           capacity: 1Gbit/s
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list 
         ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
           configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8411-2_0.0.1 07/08/13 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
           resources: irq:42 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f7914000-f7914fff memory:f7910000-f7913fff
      *-network
           description: Wireless interface
           product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
           vendor: Ralink corp.
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
           logical name: wlp3s0f0
           version: 00
           serial: 54:35:30:b1:7c:2d
           width: 32 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
           configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=4.4.0-62-generic firmware=0.37 ip=192.168.0.101 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
           resources: irq:19 memory:f7810000-f781ffff
    

    This happends only when I connect to my router, and the internet is fine when connecting on my mobile hotspot

    Any solutions? Thank you for your time, hope somebody can help!