[Bug 567016] Re: Wireless won't work on Lenovo Thinkpad T510

[Shane]

Well, i just started having trouble with the current drivers again. It
seems the kernel driver is really crappy, and the current realtek driver
is still crappy, but not as crappy. I used skype to help with this. No
one can hear me on skype if i use the kernel driver (apparently my
instructions above did not work, as it seems it still enables the kernel
driver anyway), so if i disable that and use the wlan0up i am still
heard, but after so much network usage, it'll eventually crash and burn
again (and no, this wasn't just skype disconnecting, but everything)
into an infinite loop of failed reconnect attempts inevitably reasking
for my simple WEP key. I just got this new laptop (toshiba satellite
L654D-S4025) after dealing with a crappy dell vostro 1000 that i swear
was rigged to fall apart (and i took the thing apart and could put it
back together again, but i still could not see the logic behind alot of
component placements and so forth that just seem so counter intuitive),
so i'm starting to ask myself whether or not i should even bother with
laptops anymore. i'm seriously sick of companies not caring whether or
not their product works.

Doing some research on this particular card here at launchpad, it seems
to be a common assumption (and i agree with it) that Realtek just
doesn't care about making their product work (understandable, they make
too much money off of people simply buying new components rather than
making old ones work). I also have another really weird issue (i don't
even know how to report it let alone who to report it to) with this
laptop that i can't solve.

Maybe i'm doing something wrong. I hope so: i hope i'm wrong. I want
this to be a quick and simple issue to fix so that i don't have to
constantly run some sort of wlan restart script every time the driver
decides it wants to go nuts on me. I'm gonna keep testing until i can
figure out what i'm doing wrong.

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Wireless won't work on Lenovo Thinkpad T510
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567016
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