I gave up an bought an INTEL Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 (27 EUR) for my HP Probook 430 G1.
Works ootb on Win 8.1 and Linux Mint 17 AND I have 5 Ghz and 802.11ac now (bitrates up to 866 Mbit/s.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220146 Title: Ralink Mediatek 14c3:7630 wi-fi card isn't supported out of the box Status in HWE Next Project: Confirmed Status in HWE Next trusty series: Confirmed Status in The Linux Kernel: Unknown Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux package in Fedora: New Bug description: This device is appearing in some OEM machines, but driver is not yet available in mainline. The driver seems to be present in machines with pre-installed OS, but isn't available on the download-and-install versions! The driver that upstream is working on can be found at https://github.com/lwfinger/mt7630. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1220146/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp