Mint 13 Mate 32-bit Wireless Problem rtl8192cu [SOLVED]

[HAMOS]

I did a fresh install from Linux Mint 11 32-bit which the wireless driver rtl8192CU for the Edimax Mini USB wireless driver worked prefectly. To Linux Mint 13 32-bit and the same driver ~rtl8192CU~ installed and not the wireless randomly disconnects and won't reconnect until I reboot the computr and sometimes it won't conect on boot. Nothing it the network has changed, only that I did a fresh install of Mint. I read through the forums but could't find an answer to my question. Linux Mint 13 recognized the Edimax while installing and installed the driver for it. I don't know if that makes a difference.


Please someone help me with this problem.

[AlbertP]

Could you post the output of:

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inxi -N
sudo mintwifi

[HAMOS]

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burdin@burdin-OptiPlex-GX260 ~ $ inxi -N 
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: e1000 
           Card-2: Edimax EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] 
burdin@burdin-OptiPlex-GX260 ~ $ sudo mintwifi 
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices... 
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* II. querying ndiswrapper... 
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* III. querying iwconfig... 
lo        no wireless extensions. 

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Linksys-SDB"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: C0:C1:C0:F8:92:84   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off 
          Encryption key:off 
          Power Management:off 
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-38 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0 
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0 

eth0      no wireless extensions. 

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* IV. querying ifconfig... 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:5b:c8:04:ca  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0 
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host 
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1 
          RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:2700 (2.7 KB)  TX bytes:2700 (2.7 KB) 

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 80:1f:02:68:7d:ab  
          inet6 addr: fe80::821f:2ff:fe68:7dab/64 Scope:Link 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:328 (328.0 B)  TX bytes:6398 (6.3 KB) 

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* V. querying DHCP... 
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com... 
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached 

However, in the mean time I'm going to try another reinstallation. This time without the wireless adapter connected, that way I can install the driver myself and not the auto run program.

[cciustn]

I am having the same problem looking for a resolution. Any additions to this thread would be appreciated.

[HAMOS]

Did a reinstall of Mint 13 Mate with wireless adapter disconnected. Rebooted, installed wireless driver using Moopi's method here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744371&page=3 with wireless adapter connected. Then I had to follow up with "owh" method on this page: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&p=684316 before everything worked and was stable.


Do you have to do a reinstall of your system for this fix to work? Idk that for a fact, however, since I backed all my data up and I just installed Mint 13 Mate. I thought I'd let my system be the Guinea pig for the testing of the rtl8192cu driver.


Note #1: Some Upgrades (not updates) may change your kernel and firmware driver settings. I like to install all packages, which when upgrading can only be done through a seperate program or the terminal (Please someone correct me if I am wrong). In doing so it disabled the wirless driver or deleted it. I just ran "Moopi's" method to install the drive again and it worked right off. Rebooted to make sure the changes stuck and so far so good.


Note #2: Still can't fetch all the translation updates no matter what I do. I've tried:

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sudo dpkg --configure -a

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sudo aptitude update -o Debug::Acquire::Http=true

and even this

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sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

Still no luck, any ideas? Not that this has any noticable impact on the fuctionallity of the computer at present time.


So after extensive testing done this morning and following up afterward with:

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sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade

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sudo aptitude autoclean

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sudo aptitude remove

As a final system sweep and cleanup I determine my wireless problem to as of now be solved.