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I have Ubuntu 12.04 (WUBI) on my Toshiba Satellite. I have a Realtek RTL8188E Wireless LAN 802.11n. The internet works fine when I plug it in using a ethernet cable, but my laptop doesn't even search for wifi. I have Windows 7 and my wifi works fine. How do I make my wireless internet work?

$ lspci -nn | grep 0280 
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
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  • I mean that I dual boot with Windows 7 and the wireless internet works fine on it. – Austin Dec 31 '13 at 04:11
  • Please edit your question to add details of your wireless card from the terminal command: lspci -nn | grep 0280 – chili555 Dec 31 '13 at 13:43

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Please get a temporary wired ethernet connection and do:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential

I suggest you download this to your desktop: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.12.2/backports-3.12.2-1.tar.bz2 Right-click it and select 'Extract Here.' Now open a terminal and do:

cd ~/Desktop/backports-3.12.2-1/
make defconfig-rtlwifi
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rtl8188ee

Your wireless should now be working. You will have compiled the driver for your currently running kernel only. When Update Manager installs a later linux-image, after reboot, re-compile:

cd ~/Desktop/backports-3.12.2-1/
make clean
make defconfig-rtlwifi
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rtl8188ee

If the message logs say you need firmware:

dmesg | grep rtl

Download and install it with:

wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.106_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb 
sudo modprobe -r rtl8188ee && sudo modprobe rtl8188ee
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  • I had to go through all of the firmware stuff, but eventually got it to work on Debian 7 as well. Thank you! – Chris Feb 21 '14 at 06:18
  • doesn't work... http://paste.ubuntu.com/8069197/ – MathCubes Aug 17 '14 at 07:42
  • @Andrew What kernel version are you running? uname -r – chili555 Aug 17 '14 at 12:28
  • 3.13.0.34-generic humm it is unstable. – MathCubes Aug 17 '14 at 19:13
  • @chili555 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics sudo dpkg i "name.deb", sudo apt-get -f install, sudo dpkg i "name.deb" that is how I got my touchpad working. – MathCubes Aug 17 '14 at 19:40
  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/1.7.4-0ubuntu1 – MathCubes Aug 17 '14 at 19:43
  • @Andrew The driver rtl8188ee is built-in to 3.13.0-xx; there is no need to try to backport an earlier driver. If it is not working as expected, something else is wrong. I suggest you start your own new question and I'll be happy to help. Please bring along your bounty, too! – chili555 Aug 17 '14 at 20:27
  • @chili555 I don't know how to bring bounty. – MathCubes Aug 18 '14 at 00:20
  • @chili555 this is one of the worst computer that I have work with to get Linux working right. – MathCubes Aug 18 '14 at 00:21
  • @chili555 you have no plan to help me? – MathCubes Aug 18 '14 at 21:38
  • @Andrew Did you start your own new question? Link?? – chili555 Aug 18 '14 at 21:41
  • @chili555 I was looking at your profile and you like doing networking things.... Guess what I got it working... But I don't have a firmware and the latency = 0. is a firmware needed? when I do this command sudo lshw -C network it out puts this other than the *s for the IP. http://paste.ubuntu.com/8085472/ – MathCubes Aug 19 '14 at 04:09
  • That is why it wasn't working https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1314434 – MathCubes Aug 19 '14 at 04:15
  • @chili555 http://askubuntu.com/questions/513217/issures-with-toshiba-satellite-c55-a5105-laptop – MathCubes Aug 19 '14 at 04:38
  • Instead of jumping through all these hoops of compiling your own kernel you can just install the linux-generic-lts-trusty meta-package, which gives you a v3.13 kernel. – David Foerster Aug 20 '14 at 09:20
  • @Andrew The driver rtl8188ee doesn't require firmware. I think you are all set. – chili555 Aug 20 '14 at 12:54
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First time that I tried, I got this message:

CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support

Well, I'm brazilian and here Ubuntu calls "desktop" as "Área de trabalho" (with spaces and acute) and the answer to this question saved me.

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