[Durham] WiFi does not work on Ubuntu 12.04LTS

[Richard Mortimer]

Hi,

On 08/09/2012 16:08, Bill and Anne Pritchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just joined your mailing list and wondered if anyone
>
> can help with this wifi problem.

Welcome.

>
> I installed the Ubuntu 12.04LTS OS alongside
>
> Windows 7 in a Toshiba Netbook NB510-119.
>
> The Win 7 OS connects to the internet normally via
>
> a wireless connection to a Thomson
>
> Speedtouch ST585 v6 router. The Ubuntu
>
> OS fails to connect. I have tried several browsers,
>
> downloaded linux RTL8188ce drivers from Realtek and
>
> tried other linux wireless sites with no luck. I am currently
>
> running my Ubuntu system with a USB Netgear wireless
>
> WG111v3.

Well my first thought was to Google for others with similar problems. 
Unfortunately the first thing I came up with was your questions being 
asked elsewhere.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/202242

There are a few others who seem to be having similar problems without 
reporting resolutions. But there are others who are reporting goodness 
so there maybe hope.

That said I've a couple of suggestions of things that you might try (in 
no particular order):

1 - try downloading live CDs (well I guess using a USB flash stick would 
be more appropriate since I doubt the netbook has a CD/DVD drive) of 
different distros and see if any of those work better. At the least that 
would point to a source of a working driver/kernel that might be able to 
fix the problem. I noticed that the Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 images were 
released the other day so it might be worth trying those too.

2 - do you have the firmware for the chipset loaded. I suspect you have 
otherwise things just wouldn't work but maybe you have an older version 
of firmware

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-931060-start-0.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/wlan-issues-in-debian-squeeze-rtl8188ce-919748/

3 - are there any BIOS updates available for the netbook? Maybe one of 
those will help.

4 - come down to the next meeting and see if anyone can help a bit or 
diagnose the problem more. We have a wifi connection there so testing 
would be possible. I wouldn't expect miracles though because from what I 
read on your launchpad questions it is more of a driver/network 
stability issue than a basic configuration issue.


Other posts that may be interesting

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10221153

Hope this helps.

Regards

Richard

>
> Bill Pritchard
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