Have just installed Mint 18.2/MATE (32-bit) on a (10 year old) Compaq/HP 6720S. All good, with exception of a USB/wireless adapter I am using. The built-in Broadcom adapter is 802.11G only, and my home network is N, so would prefer to be able to use USB adapter (which I know to be working under Vista). Broadcom adapter is also turned-off in BIOS.

150Mbps ralink RT 5370 chipset 2.4g antenna driver 802.11 n lan network card wireless dongle wifi usb adapter for mag 254 US $1.99-$2.70 / Piece 5 Pieces (Min. Bus 002 Device 005: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter $ iwlist scan wlx000f600b777d Failed to read scan data: Network is down lo Interface doesn't support scanning. Enp0s25 Interface doesn't support scanning. $ lshw -c net WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.

While installing from USB, the installer asked if I was OK to install proprietary drivers for the adapter (based on a Ralink RT5370). I OK-ed it, and started the install - but (foolishly) without ethernet plugged-in.
The adapter now doesn't seem to work - had hoped it would get 'discovered' during the update process, but it seems not.
My question is, can I manually add a driver to enable the adapter, or am I better to try to re-install from scratch, with ethernet connected, this time?

Ralink 5370 Driver Xp

Any suggestions/wisdom welcome.
Have attempted to gather some maybe useful info here:
$ uname -a
Linux paul-HP-Compaq-6720s 4.8.0-53-generic #56~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 16 01:14:44 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
$ iwlist scan
wlx000f600b777d Failed to read scan data : Network is down
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
enp0s25 Interface doesn't support scanning.
$ lshw -c net
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
Ralink 5370 Driver

product: 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: enp0s25
version: 03
serial: 00:1a:4b:93:59:49
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k duplex=full firmware=1.1-2 ip=192.168.1.123 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:30 memory:e4600000-e461ffff memory:e4620000-e4620fff ioport:4020(size=32)
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:10:00.0

Ralink Rt5370 Driver Linux

version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
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capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:e4000000-e4003fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:3
logical name: wlx000f600b777d
serial: 00:0f:60:0b:77:7d
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.8.0-53-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
$ rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Ralink 5370 Driver Linux

5: phy4: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no Ralink

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Thanks in advance/paul