[Durham] WiFi does not work on Ubuntu 12.04LTS

[Bill and Anne Pritchard]

Hi Olly,
The driver is seen by network manager(wlan0) but the website fails to load after a
 short time. Info below.(The Netgear driver is wlan1)
Bill
william at william-netbook:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
pci_stub               12550  1 
vboxpci                22882  0 
vboxnetadp             13328  0 
vboxnetflt             27211  0
 
vboxdrv               252188  3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
vesafb                 13516  1 
joydev                 17393  0 
arc4                   12473  2 
parport_pc             32114  0 
ppdev                  12849  0 
rfcomm                 38139  0
 
bnep                   17830  2 
bluetooth             158438  10 rfcomm,bnep
binfmt_misc            17292  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   174313  1 
rtl8187                56323  0 
mac80211              436455  1 rtl8187
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     31775  1 
uvcvideo               67203  0 
videodev               86588  1
 uvcvideo
cfg80211              178679  2 rtl8187,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6           12653  1 rtl8187
snd_hda_intel          32765  3 
snd_hda_codec         109562  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13276  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                80845  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
psmouse                72919  0 
serio_raw              13027  0
 
snd_seq_midi           13132  0 
snd_rawmidi            25424  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                51567  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              28931  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14172  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    62064  16
 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
ndiswrapper           192268  0 
video                  19068  0 
mac_hid                13077  0 
soundcore              14635  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         14108  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp                     17455  0 
parport                40930  3
 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
ums_realtek            17920  0 
uas                    17828  0 
usb_storage            39646  1 ums_realtek
william at william-netbook:~$ find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name rtl8192ce.ko
/lib/modules/3.2.0-30-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko
william at william-netbook:~$ sudo modprobe rtl8192ce
[sudo] password for william: 
william at william-netbook:~$ 

william at william-netbook:~$ lshw -c network 
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network UNCLAIMED     
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: AR8162 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
       version: 08
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:83000000-8303ffff ioport:3000(size=128)
  *-generic
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Illegal Vendor ID
       vendor: Illegal Vendor ID
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: ff
       serial: 44:6d:57:28:5e:80
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master vga_palette cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192ce driverversion=3.2.0-30-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=255 maxlatency=255 mingnt=255 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:82000000-82003fff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: usb at 1:3
       logical name: wlan1
       serial: 00:1e:2a:38:97:c2
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8187 driverversion=3.2.0-30-generic-pae firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.75 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
william at william-netbook:~$ 


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