[GTALUG] Did I buy the wrong network card? (RTL8812AE)

[ted leslie]

I guess you tried the power saving "off" option in this post?
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2348161
as well as other possible solutions?

-tl

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Scott Sullivan via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> I wish we'd covered wifi when building out your machine. It somehow just
> got missed/assumed by me you would be wired.
>
> I've got a Intel 7260 mPCIe card sitting spare. It came off a mini-itx
> board that wasn't going to need it (I substituted in a mPCIe 4-port USB3
> card instead).
>
> This one specifically.
> https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Intel_Dual_Band_Wireless-AC_7260_(7260HMW)
>
> Just needs an adapter like this for your purposes. I have the Antenna it
> came with.
> https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9UP3HC0702
>
> Or if you want to buy a complete set outright:
> https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RD2WW7170
> https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Intel_Dual_Band_Wireless-AC_7260_(7260HMWDTX1)
>
>
>
> On 13/05/17 07:40 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>> For the new computer I just built, I bought a D-Link DWA-582 802.11ac
>> PCIe adapter. It's based on the Realtek RTL8812AE chipset. Does anyone
>> know the particular magic to get these going, please?
>>
>>  From the start on Ubuntu Gnome, the card would work for about 15
>> minutes, then disassociate itself from the router. It might occasionally
>> spring back to life for a few minutes, but there didn't seem to be
>> anything special I was doing to get it reconnected.
>>
>> I've updated the firmware blob(s) from the Realtek linux maintainer's
>> site. Older posts about this chipset say it's a power management
>> problem, but the newest firmware supposedly fixes this.
>>
>> Should I have bought a different card? What 802.11ac cards work for
>> people here? I'm not super keen on drilling holes in the floor to snake
>> an ethernet cable up from the basement.
>>
>> cheers,
>>   Stewart
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