technology Ubuntu 13 and Realtek LAN adapter hell, please help

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I am still learning Ubuntu 13.10. I cannot use it because the realtek LAN adapters is atrocious and useless. Because I went and downloaded the Alsa drivers for 8192 PCi and I cannot install them into the terminal properly. Can someone please help me? I cannot use Linux with the MLP forums because the wifi is bad. So I'm on my mac book. Any help would be amazing.

[websterhamster 203]

Can you give me a list of your system specs and hardware components? That would help.

 

One thing you have to understand is with Ubuntu 13.10 the folks at Canonical basically released a half-baked distro. It was shipped without many of the things necessary to running a basic PC, unlike the many version before it. There are still a pile of bugs and problems with 13.10, so I'm hoping that 14.04 will be better. It's coming out this month!

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

Can you give me a list of your system specs and hardware components? That would help.

 

One thing you have to understand is with Ubuntu 13.10 the folks at Canonical basically released a half-baked distro. It was shipped without many of the things necessary to running a basic PC, unlike the many version before it. There are still a pile of bugs and problems with 13.10, so I'm hoping that 14.04 will be better. It's coming out this month!

How do I pull up system and PCi specs again? sorry haven't used it in 3 weeks.

[websterhamster 203]

 

 

How do I pull up system and PCi specs again? sorry haven't used it in 3 weeks.

 

Go to the menu, then System Tools, then click "System Profiler and Benchmark". This interface is pretty much like the Device Manager in Microsoft Windows, it's got the system information in a tree on the left, and when you select an item, it brings up the data in the pane on the right. 

[CMQuickfireTK 751]

How do I pull up system and PCi specs again? sorry haven't used it in 3 weeks.

 

In a terminal, type in:

lspci

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

The driver is actually RTL8188CE 802.11b

 

What else do I do?

Edited April 6, 2014 by TheMarkz0ne

[websterhamster 203]

I just remembered that I've had a similar problem with my laptop running Lubuntu 13.10 (the LXDE flavor of Ubuntu). There are some networks that I just cannot connect to, no matter how hard I try. I think it was around 13.04 that this first started, so perhaps it'll be better in 14.04.

 

Oh and BTW ALSA is an audio driver, not a network device driver.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I just remembered that I've had a similar problem with my laptop running Lubuntu 13.10 (the LXDE flavor of Ubuntu). There are some networks that I just cannot connect to, no matter how hard I try. I think it was around 13.04 that this first started, so perhaps it'll be better in 14.04.

 

Oh and BTW ALSA is an audio driver, not a network device driver.

I know, but that was the distro for the drivers located in the LAN area.

 

I'm going to upgrade to 14.04 first and see how things go.

Edited April 6, 2014 by TheMarkz0ne