ASUS USB-N13 wireless adapter problems with Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and I am new to Linux and networking. I am having trouble with my ASUS N-13 network adapter, I get a signal but that signal drops often. What can I do?

Answer 1

If you're still looking for an answer to this, and for future users, there's a great solution here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2205444&p=12967859#post12967859, which refers to the original solution here: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.

I have just copied and pasted as is from the README:

Installation
Ensure you have the necessary prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git
Set it up as a DKMS module:

sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes
Build and install it:

sudo dkms install 8192cu/1.10 
Refresh the module list:

sudo depmod -a
Ensure the native (and broken) kernel driver is blacklisted:

sudo cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/
And reboot. You're done.

I've been looking for this too, and found it to be working.