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I have to reset my internet connection often to get it to work. When it does work, it's definitely slower than when I'm on my Windows installation. My computer uses an RTL8188CE wireless card from Realtek. I'm running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.10. Power management is not on. I've read on other sites that some people fixed the issue pertaining to this wireless card by downloading and installing the drivers from the Realtek site, but it seems as if that only helped people with 32-bit installations. Anyone have any luck with this specific wireless card?

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Welcome to rtl8188ce-madness. See this answer for the best solution with 12.04: askubuntu.com/a/178098/24489 And no, it is not completely stable (12.04, 64bit).Haven't tried it with 12.10 yet. – Thomas Oct 24 '12 at 5:43
Thanks! How well has it worked for you to mitigate the issues? And is there a PPA or anything I could hook into apt-get, or would I just have to recompile at every stable release? Are you using 3.5 or 3.6? – Nicholas Ryan Bowers Oct 24 '12 at 5:59
I was using one of the linux-backports-modules-cw packages - so no recompile necessary. I upgraded the machine to 12.10 and did not look into this for now. – Thomas Oct 24 '12 at 6:49

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Putting this into /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192.conf 

options rtl8192ce ips=0 fwlps=0 debug=2

fixed it for me.

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I had a problem with lubuntu 12.10 using the RealTek RTL818CE, where network manager would say it was connected, but I couldn't actually use the wireless until I disconnected and reconnected (same after resuming from sleep/hibernation). Installing linux-backports-modules-cw-etc didn't help, but the solution offered in this answer did (so far at least). I did leave off the debug=2 option. – Menachem Feb 10 at 16:43
I may have spoken too soon. This did not solve all my issues – Menachem Feb 14 at 0:43
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I use Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (kernel driver rtl8192ce loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin) and also for me

options rtl8192ce ips=0 fwlps=0 debug=2

fixed the issue! Thank you so much, this problem was really annoying and I thought to must bring it with me in hell forever!

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