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    new realtek 8192se driver for thinkpad bgn

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by pi3guy, Mar 13, 2010.

  1. pi3guy

    pi3guy Notebook Consultant

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    there is a new realtek 8192se driver that works with my thinkpad t500 with the "thinkpad bgn". I am using jaunty x64. In June of last year, lenovo switched from using atheros to a realtek card in the non-intel wlan option, and until now, I haven't been able to get a satisfactory wireless performance.

    this new driver, released march 11, works much better than my old one which dropped the connection every 5 minutes (no joke).

    here is the url
    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...peID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8192SE

    in case anyone is unfamiliar with make, here are the steps I used to install

    unzip and put in desktop
    open terminal -
    cd Desktop
    cd "enter name of the driver folder rtl8192se..."
    sudo su "now enter sudo password"
    make
    make install


    hope this helps

    Edit update:
    After half a week of extensive use (finals week), I've concluded that although it is much better than what I was using before, it is still much worse than my windows 7 driver.
    It still drops the connection once in a while, maybe every 30 mins on average depending on my campus location(windows driver never drops connection). The drops seem to occur bunched together though, so I can usually get around 1 hr of uninterrupted browsing before dropping a couple of times in quick succession.
    I even did a recommended fix of deleting lines with "denable_lps" in the makefiles but I still get drops. Hopefully a newer driver can improve on this, but I am reasonably happy with this driver considering past performance.
     
    pi3guy, Mar 13, 2010
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  2. helikaon

    helikaon Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for sharing this info! It might come handy :)
     
    helikaon, Mar 15, 2010
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  3. ssnova703

    ssnova703 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey thanks for sharing about the thinkpad B/G/N. I will be getting a T500 with the realtek wifi card. I see from your post that it's not too good with linux. How is it with Win 7 or XP?

    I started a thread asking about it's performance here

    But I only got one response from an actual user. I was just wanting to know/hear from an actual user of the wifi card who could comment. Sorry to sort of go off topic, though it is related.

    Cheers!
     
    ssnova703, Mar 17, 2010
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