I just installed ElementaryOS and at first I wasn't able to get my wireless card working. Now after downloading the driver from "https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new" and using make and install, I see my wireless adapter being detected. However, when I click on the WiFi icon, I can see "Wireless Network" immediately followed by disconnected. There isn't a list of available networks. I tried "iwlist wlan0 scan" but it comes up with no results. Help?
Hey kjtsui15, have you a network cable connection? If yes, give this a try; remove the self compiled driver and try this package: Code (Text): sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree sudo reboot The nonfree-driver for RTL8723ae should be there inside, i thought. This package does include different driver versions between Elementary Luna & Elementary Freya Beta. If you do not use the newest ElementaryOS Freya (currently downloadable through http://beta.elementary.io) you may want to download the latest BETA there. The package linux-firmware-nonfree there is more up2date, because elementaryOS Freya is based on Ubuntu 14.04 instead of 12.04 (Luna). Does this work? Let it known the community
I have already installed a different wireless adapter into my laptop so I can't try it out. However, I can now connect to my WiFi network.
