Since mid-December I'm having a terrible time with the wifi card on my Toshiba laptop. It's never worked great, but now I can barely get it to keep a wifi connection at more than 20 feet from the router. I've tried a whole lot of things, but so far nothing has resolved it.
Does anyone out there have advice for how to make a Realtek RTL8188EE card work properly on LM Mate 17?
I have always had to recompile the driver and modprobe it again after every kernel update, but that isn't helping now. I'm using the latest "FreedomBen" driver, since it seems to work a tad better than the one I downloaded from Realtek, and I've set the following config options: ips=0 fwlps=0 swenc=Y. I have trouble with multiple routers, so it's not just my specific network.
I thought about trying to use ndiswrapper instead, but I can't find a Windows driver for this with .inf and .sys files I can use.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
EDIT: Forgot to include hardware info:
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zap@bangarang ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: bangarang Kernel: 3.14.1-031401-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.6.3)
Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite L75-A version: PSKN2U-05900C
Mobo: Type2 - Board Vendor Name1 model: Type2 - Board Product Name1 version: Type2 - Board Version
Bios: Insyde version: 1.00 date: 04/30/2013
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-3230M CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10376.7
Clock Speeds: 1: 2707.250 MHz 2: 2544.750 MHz 3: 2666.625 MHz 4: 2463.500 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1600x900@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.14.1-031401-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8188ee port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (35.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_840 size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 224G used: 83G (39%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 236M used: 85M (38%) fs: ext2
ID: swap-1 size: 6.32GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 232 Uptime: 1:10 Memory: 1883.0/5851.1MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 
