[Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2015-02-09 Thread bulldozer2003
Larry, Thank you for your work on this wireless driver. I, however, gave up and bought an Intel 7260 dual-band for my thinkpad on ebay for $20 to stop dealing with this issue. Would it help for me to mail you, or someone else working on development, the realtek Mini PCI Express card I no longer n

Re: [Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2014-08-17 Thread bulldozer2003
After using the r8192ee driver in the 3.16 kernel, I found SSH sessions to be extremely unreliable. Web browsing was tolerable but slow and required occasional retries. I've now purchased a WiFi USB dongle and will test the r8192ee driver as new 3.16 kernels are released for utopic. -- You rece

[Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2014-08-14 Thread bulldozer2003
@sochan I wish I had a different card. I would have preferred a dual band card. Also, this driver in 3.16 seems stable, I've been using it since my earlier post without any problems despite the dmesg warning: [3.751315] r8192ee: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown,

[Bug 1239578] Re: No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]

2014-08-14 Thread bulldozer2003
I just installed 14.04.1 on my T440s. Here is how I installed the 3.16 kernel and got wifi working by adding utopic (14.10) sources to apt. BE WARNED: This may be dangerous. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the lines: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic main restricted deb http://archi

[Bug 362427] Re: Public key ssh auth doesn't work with my Encrypted Home Directory

2014-03-31 Thread bulldozer2003
If you've implementing Dustin's workaround, you may run into a delay when logging in, and an Xauthority error. This is caused by xauth being unable to write to your home directory before the encrypted directory is mounted. Here is my workaround. Using the ~/.ssh/rc file, the xauth parameters are w