[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2015-02-09 Thread bulldozer2003
Larry, Thank you for your work on this wireless driver. I, however, gave up and bought an Intel 7260 dual-band for my thinkpad on ebay for $20 to stop dealing with this issue. Would it help for me to mail you, or someone else working on development, the realtek Mini PCI Express card I no longer

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2014-08-17 Thread bulldozer2003
After using the r8192ee driver in the 3.16 kernel, I found SSH sessions to be extremely unreliable. Web browsing was tolerable but slow and required occasional retries. I've now purchased a WiFi USB dongle and will test the r8192ee driver as new 3.16 kernels are released for utopic. -- You

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2014-08-14 Thread bulldozer2003
I just installed 14.04.1 on my T440s. Here is how I installed the 3.16 kernel and got wifi working by adding utopic (14.10) sources to apt. BE WARNED: This may be dangerous. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the lines: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic main restricted deb

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2014-08-14 Thread bulldozer2003
@sochan I wish I had a different card. I would have preferred a dual band card. Also, this driver in 3.16 seems stable, I've been using it since my earlier post without any problems despite the dmesg warning: [3.751315] r8192ee: module is from the staging directory, the quality is