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I wanted prove this linux distro (I heard good things about it), but I'm having this problem with the wifi connection: it simply doesn't work, both during installation and after i have installed the system. More specifically, it finds my home connection, but it can't establish a connection, leaving me offline. I have a USB WIFI ADAPTER, the specific model is the Atlantis Wireless N 300 mps NetFly UP WN (to be clear: http://www.atlantisland.it/pub/prodotti.php?famiglia=1&l1=2&l2=3&articolo=QTAyLVVQLVczMDBO). In the manufacturer's webpage i found out the package with the driver (i believe), but I've not been able to install it (I have some knowledge of linux distros, but I'm not a dragon in this field...).

Can you suggest me some solution??

Oh, I was mforgetting: I don't have the possibility to connect my desktop pc directly to my mode-router directly with the ethernet wire...

Thank you for your attention!

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That wifi adapter is based on Realtek 8192CU chipset, with known bugs on Ubuntu and derivates.

If you can connect to inet from another pc, you must try to download a driver ported to kernel 3.13 and above, from the next address :

Github.com pvaret

Download the. zip file and copy it to a usb drive to paste in your elementary OS pc.

Once it will be in your pc, extract and rename the folder as "realtek8192cu-fixes". Open panthon-files as root and paste this folder to "/opt". Open Readme.md file inside the folder and follow the instructions.

If you need some aditional help, you can comment this answer.

UPDATE:

According to Readme.md file, I'll try to explain the installation steps:

  • Open a terminal window or simply press Ctrl and T keys.
  • Then you must execute: sudo pantheon-files and put your password when you ask for it. Now you have opened Files as root.
  • Copy rtl8192cu-fixes folder to /opt folder.
  • From /opt , click the right button mouse and choose Open in ... Terminal option. Now you can see a new terminal window prompted to /opt folder.
  • Execute sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes.
  • If an unknown command error appears, cause you haven't installed dkms , you can download to another computer the dkms trusty packages from: Ubuntu trusty packages. Copy to elementary OS pc and install it with the command: sudo dpkg -i dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5.14.04.5_all.deb. Try again with sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes.
  • Execute sudo dkms install 8192cu/1.10.
  • Execute sudo depmod -a.
  • Once your new driver is installed , remove your old one from boot with sudo cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/
  • And finally you must disable power management executing sudo cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes/8192cu-disable-power-management.conf /etc/modprobe.d/.

Reboot your system and try to connect via wifi to your rooter.

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  • I tried to do what you have suggested me, but I've encountered these problems (as i previously said, I'm not a dragon in these things): I have downloaded (by another pc) the zip from the site and renamed the extracted folder,but gave that the /opt folder didn't allow me to copy the files in, I searched online and i've found a solution to enable the operation (the command "sudo chmod -R 777 /opt"). From this point all has gone wrong and I haven't been able to solve the problem.
    – OyD
    Jun 29, 2016 at 14:39
  • HI @OyD. I have edited my answer. I hope it help you.
    – bitseater
    Jun 29, 2016 at 15:15

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