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Today I turned on my notebook and I couldn't connect to my network, it just keeps asking for my password. That's weird because I've been using it on this network forever and never saw this error.

So I restarted my router thinking that could be the problem, and nope, both my desktop computers connect fine but my notebook still can't connect.

So I boot my notebook on Windows 7 and it connects just fine, so it's not a hardware thing...

The encryption im using is WPA & WPA2 Personal, and the wireless card is RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit

Why can't I connect to wifi on my xubuntu notebook?

gosukiwi
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    Welcome to Ask Ubuntu gosu! **What exactly happens** when you try to connect to your network? Does it repeatedly keep asking you for the password? Does it connect, but you can't access the internet? Please provide more information. – Alaa Ali Aug 26 '13 at 04:57
  • It repeatedly keeps asking for my password – gosukiwi Aug 26 '13 at 05:02
  • Follow the steps [in this answer](http://askubuntu.com/a/310706/52726). If it doesn't fix it, follow the steps [in this answer](http://askubuntu.com/a/69181/52726). If one of these fixes your issue, please report back on which one did. – Alaa Ali Aug 26 '13 at 05:18
  • what encryption are you using? what wireless network card you are using? – Mitch Aug 26 '13 at 05:18
  • The encryption im using is WPA & WPA2 Personal, the wireless card is RTL8111/8168 PCI EXpress Gigabit. @Alaa: I tried both, none of them worked. – gosukiwi Aug 26 '13 at 05:25
  • Let's continue this [in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10317/discussion-between-alaa-and-gosu-kiwi). – Alaa Ali Aug 26 '13 at 06:25
  • It is safe to run it was written by me and some good friends it will help diagnose your wireless issue. Paste this command in a terminal `wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script` It will download a script and create a file named (wireless-info.txt, or wireless-info.txt.tar.gz) in your home folder paste the file here http://pastebin.com/ then paste the link back here. – Wild Man Aug 26 '13 at 20:58
  • http://pastebin.com/KyQBCcxf Here it is :) – gosukiwi Aug 26 '13 at 23:36

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It turns out for some reason the drivers broke... I downloaded the drivers from Realtek and installed them, reboot, and it now works as a charm!

tar -xvzf myDriver.tar.gz
cd myDriver/
sudo make
sudo make install
reboot

Thanks to everyone who helped :)

EDIT: I had to follow this guide for a source code error on their driver code

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