Comment 58 for bug 585938

I've been looking at the patch to fix this out-of-tree OEM driver from Realtek and have decided not to apply it, mostly 'cause I think there are better solutions. We offer Compat Wireless backport packages from kernel versions v2.6.33 through v3.3. The rtl8192se driver went mainline as of v3.0, so I would try installing one of the more recent compat wireless packages. You can see which packages are available thusly:

apt-cache search linux-backports-modules-wireless

I would start out by installing CW from 3.3:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-3.3-lucid-generic