Comment 290 for bug 1239578

Hi Adam,

I am using a version of this driver I got from Larry Finger, but it seems
to be buggy as my internet often drops. I am using it on a T440s on Ubuntu
12.04.

Should I update to Trusty, expecting to help solve this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Kelvin

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Adam Lee <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> It's already in Trusty(14.04) daily build, you guys can try it. I will
> test it on my side and close this bug.
>
> commit 25e7ce81e86a4c47ea50e4d55567704d9ef957c5
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
> Date: Tue Jan 21 11:20:45 2014 -0800
>
> Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287298
>
> This comes directly from the Realtek tarball, filename:
> wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
>
> I mushed the three modules (btcoexist, rtlwifi and rtl8821ae) together
> into one, in order to make it all build as one stand-alone module.
> After the btcoexist driver gets merged upstream, I'll pull it out of
> here, and will continue to work on removing this version of rtlwifi in
> order to use the in-kernel one.
>
> Cc: Larry Finger <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
> (cherry picked from commit 3c05bedb5fef7a6ada63c5dbf61e1258b9019f05)
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>
>
> commit 9888aa51ff6d62ed1b8a57c540bb5b1dc2e5d25c
> Author: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>
> Date: Mon Mar 3 12:14:05 2014 -0700
>
> UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_R8821AE=m
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> Open this bug to trace device driver RTL8192EE.
>
> We have seen this wireless card on some laptops, id is [10ec:818b],
> - driver is RTL8192EE. The support doesn't show up in mainline or
> - wireless-next yet.
> + driver is RTL8192EE(or RTL8821AE, depends on RealTek).
>
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>
> Title:
> No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]
>
> Status in HWE Next Project:
> Incomplete
> Status in HWE Next trusty series:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Open this bug to trace device driver RTL8192EE.
>
> We have seen this wireless card on some laptops, id is [10ec:818b],
> driver is RTL8192EE(or RTL8821AE, depends on RealTek).
>
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