There is a known issue with power management on some hardware.
So long as you can install the prerequisites on your own, everything after the line that contains `apt-get` should work in other distributions as well. The instructions above should work in every Debian-based distribution.
Then go to usr/src drectory added Build a dkmsĮnsure the native (and broken) kernel driver is blacklisted: Sudo apt-get install git linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms This appears to be an issue in the upstream Realtek driver.Įnsure you have the necessary prerequisites installed: These devices are known not to be supported:Īs a rule of thumb, this driver generally works with devices that use the RTL8192CU chipset, and some devices that use the RTL8188CUS, RTL8188CE-VAU and RTL8188RU chipsets too, though it's more hit and miss.ĭevices that use dual antennas are known not to work well. I am switching from a land line to wireless internet and my tower computer doesn't have a wi-fi adapter built in, so I bought a Belkin N300 adapter.
These devices are known to work with this driver: Brand new to Ubuntu (although I have upgraded to 14.10 from 14.04) and I am still reading the 'books' on how to work with Linux. This is a repackaging of Realtek's own 8192CU USB WiFi driver for Linux Mint 18 STEP5: iwconfig wlan0 key restricted DenLu1406ĭhcpcd: all: not configured to accept IPv6 RAsĭhcpcd: allowing 8 seconds for IPv4LL timeout
The Ubuntu PC can find the wifi signal but connectivity fails as soon as you try and do anything.
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