OK, after spending hours attempting to upgrade the BIOS on this pile of crap laptop, I give up. Apparently, the only way it's possible is if I'd not installed Linux on it, and still had the original w8 partition to boot from.
In any case, given that the only thing "fixed" in the new firmware version is: "- Provides support for additional notebook models." ..and further given that there are many reports of this same problem with different laptop models (but all with the same wireless chipset). And further given that it works fine if I just boot from the saucy kernel.. I'm going to venture a guess that even if I could update the firmware, it wouldn't change anything. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1321994 Title: 10ec:8179 [HP Pavilion 17-e171nr Notebook PC] RTL8188EE driver regression in 3.13.0-24. Extremely slow network performance To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1321994/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
