We (http:system76.com) have fixed this problem on our Starling Netbook that has an RTL8187B adapter. We downloaded and manually compiled the latest driver from Realtek. It has to be requested via email at this point.
Once you have the driver (which I've attached below for your convenience) you have to unzip it, cd into the directory and run... make sudo make install We also had to blacklist the rtl8187 module. The new module is called r8187 (i.e. not rtl). If we didn't blacklist the rtl module, it was loaded by default. This increased our max range from about 40 feet to 120+ feet, and the connection seems rock solid. Hopefully the fix will make it into Ubuntu. ** Attachment added: "rtl8187B_linux_26.1052.0225.2009.release.tar.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29935624/rtl8187B_linux_26.1052.0225.2009.release.tar.gz -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
