This is a port of Realtek's own 8192cu driver for USB Wifi chipsets, ported to kernel 3.11 as ships with Ubuntu 13.10.

It was initially based on Timothy Phillips's work as published here: https://code.google.com/p/realtek-8188cus-wireless-drivers-3444749-ubuntu-1304/, though no longer.

Ensure you have the necessary prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git

Set it up as a DKMS module:

sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes

Build and install it:

sudo dkms install 8192cu/1.8

Refresh the module list:

sudo depmod -a

Ensure the native (and broken) kernel driver is blacklisted:

sudo cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/

And reboot. You're done.

As it currently stands, the driver doesn't populate /proc with informational data from the driver. The API for /proc has changed, and the driver hasn't yet been ported to the new API.