Unfortunately, I'm having a very similar problem. I keep that old Realtek for situations such as yours, I need a one time connection to download driver software/firmware. There is a third choice but it's pretty slow(G speed) and ugly, Trendnet TEW-424UB (ver.2 or better) but plug it in and it works - every time since 9.04 in my experience.

The second good choice IME is Netgear's WNA1100 using an Atheros AR9271 chipset. Use caution here, RTL8192 CU seems much more common but needs a tweaked proprietary RealTekdriver to work reliably. One is Trendnet's TEW-649UB using RealTek's RTL8192 SU chipset. If you have a laptop, can you get a one-time ethernet cable connection to install wireless drivers? If not and wireless is the only option, I have a couple USB dongles that have been plug 'n' play for a couple years at least. Lol they told me 'leave Windows and switch to Linux, it's simple and easy.'Ĭatch 22, isn't it? I use two options in addition to praseodym's good solutions. I really don't know what I can do for that problem.very frustated.How am I supposed to do it if I don't have the drivers to connect to the internet?

Am I right? Could also be a problem for my debian version. Therefore I suppose that maybe there is one conflict when there is a sharing access to the router between my pendrive and the wirless driver of the notebook. wlan0: ethernet device 2c:b0:5d:6f:7b:91 using NDIS driver: bcmwlhigh5, version: 0x53cb40b, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 0846:9020.F.conf ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection I have niticed that my notbook has one wireless drive included in the hardware and I found this:Ĭode: Select all sudo dmesg | grep Network I have supposed that the problem is Kde Network Manager and for that reason I have removed and installed wicd, but in that case I get an error as while the wicd is looking to get connection with router it tells me that the password is incorrect (this is absurd, because the password is the same as I have in the wireless section of the router).

Quality:85/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-96 dBmīit Rates:1 Mb/s 2 Mb/s 5.5 Mb/s 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/sġ1 Mb/s 12 Mb/s 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s 36 Mb/sĪs you can see above everything appears to be right, but there is not connection with router.

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