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On trying to get my RTL8188CE wireless card to work reliably, I tried installing the rtl8192ce driver directly from realtek's website. However, now I got a kernel panic everytime I tried to load the driver. I was able to remove it again in safemode using realtek's make uninstall script. Now there is no driver for my card at all and it doesn't show up in network-manager any more. When I try to manually load the rtl8192ce module I get:

FATAL: Module rtl8192ce not found.

So how can I reinstall the original Ubuntu rtl8192ce driver so I have at least some connectivity?

Béné
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    It is really painfull if you have that wifi module. I have it to with the driver succesfully installed. But can only acces wifi 2 meter from the router. I would suggest just buy a powerline adapter and take the cable ;). – Thomas15v Apr 02 '13 at 16:29
  • I guess you're right, Thomas. I wish I had known that before I bought the card. :( I ordered an Intel Centrino Card which is Ubuntu Certified and will replace the Realtek one. Should have done that in the first place. *sigh* – Béné Apr 03 '13 at 22:13

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You can get an updated version by doing, with a temporary ethernet connection:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-precise-generic
sudo modprobe rtl8192ce
chili555
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  • Thanks a lot! You pointed me into the right direction! I was running the 3.5 kernel from the Hardware Enablement Stack, so I reinstalled that, which gave me back the rtl8192ce module. It complained about missing firmware though. I had to copy the realtek firmware back to /lib/firmware/rtlwifi (aparently the realtek uninstall script deleted the entire directory) and now I am back with the half working wireless connection I started out with. – Béné Apr 03 '13 at 22:11