After an automatic update my USB network adapter stopped working. I have spent one day trying to fix it from available information online and have not been successful. I need help.
Here is some basic system information, but please do ask for more if it will help.
~$ uname -a
Linux ******** 3.5.0-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:51:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0b05:17ab ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB-N13 802.11n Network Adapter (rev. B1) [Realtek RTL8192CU]
Currently, all drivers from the realtek website that I download are broken archives. The driver from Asus does not compile with the headers for the 3.5 kernel. I applied a patch that fixed this, but the install failed -- for the rather mundane reason that the file RT3070STA.dat was missing, but RT2870STA.dat was present instead. I didn't want to proceed by renaming this file because it was unclear whether that would break everything. Older realtek drivers have even more problems with the headers for kernel version 3.5.* that I haven't attempted to resolve by hand.
In summary :
realtek drivers from website are all broken on download
asus website driver is clearly not what it should be
older realtek drivers seem very incompatible with 3.5.x
default drivers, if any, aren't working.
I don't know where to go from here?
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