Getting DIGITUS-DN-70440 to work with Ubuntu 11.10 and ndiswrapper

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:47:52 +0000

I needed a new wlan stick for my fixed pc, as the old one had a very weak reception, so I looked a bit in the shops and found that a realtek stick with reverse-sma port + a extra large antenna just were about 15 Euros. The exact name of the stick is DIGITUS-DN-70440, but it has a Realtek 8192CU chipset on board. Thinking about the fine support for Realtek Ethernet-Cards and reading it had “Linux-Support” I thought it should work like a charm…..Screw this. The crapstick kept kicking me out of the wlan every 10 seconds and I was blaming everthing else until I realised, it’s the driver. The experience I made was: you just can’t use the linux driver…

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Getting DIGITUS-DN-70440 to work with Ubuntu 11.10 and ndiswrapper