Comment 59 for bug 1096989

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launchpadder (launchwad) wrote : Re: 10ec:8179 No wireless support for Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 (RTL8188E)

@all

i thought i had solved this by replacing precise with raring and updating kernel to 3.10 (see #48 above and the thread leading to it). unfortunately, it is not the case. the wifi connection drops constantly and pops a login window, actually dozens and dozens of login windows (see attached). the only way to get rid of all of them is to kill nm-applet (which takes 300mb+ of memory, more than chrome).

at this point i'm seriously considering returning q190 (a fine machine otherwise), because i can't get ubuntu to run properly on it. any ideas how to fix this once and for all? thx.