Xubuntu and Wi-Fi woes : command-line help needed

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hello everyone,

I am using Xubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.8.0-19-generic.

I've not customized my system ; this pretty much 'stock' Ubuntu (Xubuntu) with all updates applied.

My machine is a Lenovo IdeaPad S110 netbook [1] and has the following graphics card ( as determined by running 'lspci')

02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

The problem that I am facing is the following:

After booting and logging in, the Wi-Fi applet at the top shows the spinning icon for a long time and then asks repeatedly for the Wi-Fi password of a network which is already saved . It prompts me for the password between 5-10 times. I haven to hit "cancel: in the dialog that shows up, disable my Wi-Fi ( via the UI ) and then enable it. It then connects.

I like using Fluxbox as my WM ; but when I am not at home, I need to bring up the (flaky) network connection UI to connect to a new wifi network that I may encounter. ( Eg- an airport, coffee shop etc )

Is there a way for me to add a new wifi network using the command line ( so that I don't need to use the network applet which is frankly driving me nuts ) ?

I'd love to just put the network connection info in a config file and connect to a network. Is there a tool which will help me do it over the command line?

Thanks in advance!

Manish Chakravarty
https://twitter.com/ManishChaks

[Peddu]

hi Manish,

   Try the following... Solved something similar with my rtl chipset.. 

 1. Try to set the channel number in the wifi router to a number less than 10.. the channels will be in the wifi settings in the router ui.

 2.  Assign a static ip to your system.

hope it helps..

regards,

Pavan

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hello Peddu,

Thank you for the reply.

Why should I set a static IP? My router does DHCP just fine? ( did not understand the rationale behind it )

Regards,
Manish

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[Pavan Kumar Peddu]

hi Manish,

   I couldn't  understand it either. But I didn't have the time to investigate. Let me know if it works. ;-)

regards,

Pavan

[madhu y n]

Hi Manish,

do as said in this blog post (my blog)

http://nerdzsoul.blogspot.in/2013/09/ubuntu-wifiwireless-connection-fails.html

[Pavan Kumar Peddu]

hi Manish,

    forget my earlier steps.. my chipset was completely differrent. But for your issue, check this out...

https://github.com/FreedomBen/rtl8188ce-linux-driver 

I think realtek stopped updating their driver for the latest kernels.. We need to do it on our own, with the help of the interwebs and some good  guys..:-)

regards,

Pavan

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[Manish Chakravarty]

Hello Pavan,

Thanks a lot for the reply. It's sad that they stopped updating their drivers.

When the audio dies - I'll just run a 'sudo alsactl init' and live with it :/

Thanks,
Manish

[Manish Chakravarty]

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I upgraded to Kubuntu 13.10 (AMD 64 bit )and it seems to have solved the problem.
Thanks,
Manish
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