I have an Pavilion G6-1d80NR with a Realtek RTL8188CE WiFi card. I just recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 7 and aside from having to tweak the nomodest setting from the Ubuntu setup screen, the installation was smooth. But for some reason Ubuntu doesn't recognize the network card. It's not even finding it when I look at the computer overview. I can't even turn on wireless capability from the network settings. In Windows 7 I can browse the web fine, just not in Ubuntu. Any ideas as to how I can fix this? Thanks in advance!!
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You might have to install the driver from Realtek in order to make it work. Some network adapters have special functions or configurations that require the OS to use a specific driver (like for extra frequency ranges). In the case of your network adapter, Realtek provides a driver for Linux-based operating systems like Ubuntu; and since you are using version 13.10, you need to download the version for Linux kernels above 2.6.24 from this page: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=272&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8188CE (It jumps to your adapter automatically, but it takes a few seconds for the page to load completly)
