* When using WPA Enterprise, entire system will freeze after a few minutes, requiring reboot Realtek has been contacted about the problem. This problem has been observed with version 015 too. * Connections randomly drop out after a few minutes (seems to be fixed in version 015) However, it may reduce the battery life since LPS is an acronym for Low Power State. This also reduces the "noise" in the syslog kernel messages generated by LPS. One method that appears to drastically reduce the crashes and connection drops is to comment out "-DENABLE_LPS" from the Makefiles while building the Realtek Linux driver. Please note: use of this driver on Lenovo systems results in unpredictable fatal crashes on some systems! It's is *not* advised to choose this driver. More information about using the Realtek native driver in Ubuntu: The Realtek Linux driver for this chip can be downloaded from the Realtek website In some cases the RealTek driver below can be more reliable than the kernel driver. The rtlwifi driver which supports this chip was included in kernel 3.0. All other available WiFi options are supported by in-kernel drivers in modern Linux distributions rtlwifi If you are not comfortable with running development code and have the option, order your ThinkPad with a different WiFi adapter.
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