Just loaded Mint 19.1 Cinnamon on an ASUS 11.6 laptop. It appeared to find the network card, but only runs like a 2.4 GHZ, yet when it had Win 10 it used the AC card to it full advantage. It was running at 200MB under WIN 10, but can barely muster 20MB now. It setup wireless as part of the setup, and established the slow connection immediately, but no devices appear in Device Manager. It appears that I don't have the right driver but haven't found a way to identify what card is in there, and ASUS says it could be one of 4 vendors. Knowing it can run at 200MB down, I can't settle. How do I get the Device Manager to do it's job?

May need to install inxi first, but in a terminal window will display your network card(s) and driver(s)

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I was able to learn the ASUS has an Intel Wifi card and uses the "iwlwifi" driver. I assume I need to enter some other code via terminal mode, to delete the driver so that I can try to replace it. I tried to use the device at another location today, but despite having the password, it could not connect to it, although my phone had no problem. When I returned home, the device connected without problems. I would appreciate what ever additional info you can supply.

There's people giving you good advice. Take it. Do the honework.


One reason for the speed difference might be protocol; There's 802.11b(dead slow), 802.11g(moderately slow), & 802.11n(fastest to date). Not all devices or drivers are 802.11n capable.
You'll find the device with 'sudo lspci' or 'sudo lsusb.'

After installing Linux Mint, you need to restart the laptop. In this operating system, the default driver is Wi fi. If something doesn't work, just reinstall os- it is simplest way.

This should enable full AC and disable wifi power management after a reboot