A few weeks ago I installed Trisquel 8 on a friend's laptop. His Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless card was immediately detected and worked fine until yesterday. NetworkManager still detects the card, but no wireless access points show up in nm-applet or nmcli. This is the first case I've encountered in which there is a problem with WiFi that is apparently not the result of a missing driver.
Every thread I've managed to find online pertaining to this card is about a case in which a driver is missing and there is no WiFi card available. The driver that is usually recommended appears to be non-free[1]. I can't find a case in which the WiFi card had been working without the non-free driver, suddenly stopped finding wireless connections, and yet was still recognized as "available" by NetworkManager. Does anyone have experience with this WiFi card or other Realtek cards in Trisquel? Should it work with free software, or is it a licensing bug that the card worked for several weeks? [1] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/blob/master/firmware/rtlwifi/Realtek-Firmware-License.txt
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