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xenopeek wrote:The Realtek Device 8723 would be your Wi-Fi, but is seems it had very bad support on Linux. I'm not sure if this has been improved. Some users have a received a file from Realtek on Dropbox, that they can compile to get a working driver on Linux Mint 13. I'm not sure it will work on 14. You may be happier getting a Wi-Fi dongle that just works on Linux Mint 14. (The hardware compatibility database for Linux Mint is here: http://community.linuxmint.com/hardware/search. Suggest you search for type "USB wireless adapter", status "Works perfectly" and release "Maya" as "Nadia" has no entries yet.)
Anyway, the bits I found from other users are:
- Dowload + instructions: http://askubuntu.com/a/165002
- Alternative compilation instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=8
Fíona wrote:Last year I had problems with my toshiba satellite's wifi, it connected ok but dropped connections which could only be restored by rebooting. I also believed that the problem was the realtek driver.
I compiled and installed a driver I downloaded from the site and thereafter no probs. I work with linuxmint 13 so don't know if 14 is a problem.
Maybe this howto will help;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1930475
Fíona wrote:Last year I had problems with my toshiba satellite's wifi,
heiowge wrote:Fíona wrote:Last year I had problems with my toshiba satellite's wifi,
Strange... My wife's old Toshiba equium had no such problems with Mint 11... Not tried Mint 14 yet with it.
TheWizardofOdds wrote:
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.2
Card-2: Realtek Device 8723 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
Rhakios wrote:I have an atheros based USB stick that works fine with Mint14, as I can't disable the onboard wifi chip in the BIOS, I just select the USB device in Mint's network manager and disable the onboard wifi from there.
xenopeek wrote:The Realtek Device 8723 would be your Wi-Fi, but is seems it had very bad support on Linux. I'm not sure if this has been improved. Some users have a received a file from Realtek on Dropbox, that they can compile to get a working driver on Linux Mint 13. I'm not sure it will work on 14. You may be happier getting a Wi-Fi dongle that just works on Linux Mint 14. (The hardware compatibility database for Linux Mint is here: http://community.linuxmint.com/hardware/search. Suggest you search for type "USB wireless adapter", status "Works perfectly" and release "Maya" as "Nadia" has no entries yet.)
Anyway, the bits I found from other users are:
- Dowload + instructions: http://askubuntu.com/a/165002
- Alternative compilation instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?
p=12081092&postcount=8
TheWizardofOdds wrote:Is that a wireless adapter? When you select the USB in network manager, does that disable the onboard wifi automatically?
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