I just installed Lubuntu on a DELL laptop. Audio, Video and everything is working fine. When i installed USB Wifi driver, it went smooth with no errors but its not functional. A command [:~#l lshw -C network ] shows the network: Disabled . Can any one help me? how to make it working? Details for the USB WLAN Driver: Realtek RTL8192CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter Driver Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp Downloaded File: RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v3.4.4_4749.20121105 Source: www.realtek.com.tw system details with commands: ---------------------- :~#l cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-21-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 ------------------------ :~#l lsusb |grep Realtek Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter ---------------------------- :~#l lshw -C network / Pasting only the USB *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface physical id: 2 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:e0:4c:81:92:00 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=802.11b/g ------------------------------ : :~#l lsmod |grep r81 r8192s_usb 346007 0 ------------------------------ ------------------------ : :~#l ifconfig wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:81:92:00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 MB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 MB) ----------------- : :~#l iwconfig wlan0 802.11b/g Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate: 0 kb/s Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff Encryption keyff Power Managementff Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 --------------------

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2013-09-29	Mark Rijckenberg	Answer	Answered
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