Realtek RTL8188EE drivers in Xenial?

Solution 1:

I do not know if you've seen this post already or not but here goes. Link

According to the answers in that question, it seems there is a better driver available by a third party developer who maintains it in GitHub.

So open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and follow these steps:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic git dkms
git clone http://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git
cd /path/to/rtlwifi_new
make
sudo modprobe -rv rtl8188ee
sudo make install
sudo modprobe -v rtl8188ee

Hope this helps :)

Solution 2:

So, the other answer about installing the drviers from source is definitely the right one if you don't have the driver.

In my case, all I had to do was

• take apart my laptop to make sure the wireless adapter was actually connected
• put it back together
• reboot a few times
• idly toggle the Enable WLAN setting in the BIOS to off*
• ???
• I now have WiFi.

*Yeah, that's probably a bug. Hopefully this helps another Satellite P755 owner out there.