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by bpizzi 3723 days ago
My Thinkpad T440S from 2014 works almost great under Ubuntu 14.04. Everything's going properly (keyboard, battery, etc) but the Wifi is not. Seems like a RTL8192EE isn't a linux' first class citizen :/

Btw I tried different distros before sticking with Ubuntu 14.04: it really the most finished (at least on my t440s).
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sampo 3723 days ago
Realtek RTL8192EE was the default wifi card in T440s. It would have been clever to choose a configuration with an Intel wifi card, which was also available. The current model, T460s, comes with a Intel card by default.

The driver for the Realtek card may have improved by now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1239578

Another solution is to buy a suitable Intel wifi card from ebay for $10-$20, open the laptop, and switch it in.

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bpizzi 3722 days ago
Yes that was also my conclusions afterwards...

But things have improved thanks to https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new (I stumbled upon that while doing a quick search after posting here yesterday...). Looks like my wlan is finally stable :)

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