On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:33 +0000, Gordon wrote: > Matthew Daubney wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +0000, Gordon wrote: > >> Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. > >> Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but > >> is so slow as to be unusable. > >> Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this? > > > > Hiya, > > > > I've got a USB wireless dongle that uses this chipset and have had > > similar problems. There is a very old bug report at > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275302 and I've > > emailed the people who are listed as the module developers, but had no > > response. It looks like the device just randomly drops a LOT of packets. > > I've had a quick look at trying to fix it myself, but I don't really > > understand how these things work! > > > > Not very helpful I know, some people have had some success with > > ndiswrapper, a horrible hack I know, but if it works? > > > > -Matt Daubney > > > > > > I've been looking at this: > http://zenzike.blogspot.com/2008/11/wireless-woes.html > which seems to have had a good response - however I get into trouble > with the patching process - there is apparently no command "patch" in > Ubuntu, and when I go to Synaptic to install it, there is no "patch" > available. > Any ideas on that one? >
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=patch indicates that its there. You might want to update synaptic. If in doubt try running "sudo apt-get install patch" from a terminal. HTH -Matt Daubney -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
