Re: Problems associating with RTL8188CE

Seth Forshee
2012-01-26T21:33:49Z

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:58:04AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:43:17AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > Seth,
> >
> > As expected, my RTL8188SE came right up.
> >
> > The lspci -nnv details for my card are
> >
> > 06:00.0 0280: 10ec:8176 (rev 01)
> > Subsystem: 10ec:8176
> > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> > ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
> > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast
> > >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
> > Region 0: I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
> > Region 2: Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> > Capabilities: <access denied>
> > Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
> >
> > Does yours also have 10ec:8176 as the PCI ID?
>
> Yes.
>
> 07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8184]
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
> Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
> Region 2: Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
> Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
> Kernel modules: rtl8192ce

Sorry for the long silence on this, I was busy with some other things.
But I've been playing with it again this week and uncovered some new
information regarding the failures.

I noticed the other day that the rtl8188ce was no longer having trouble
associating with this AP. After playing around in the router settings I
discovered that it works fine so long as the router isn't on channel 1.
So then I configured my other router to use channel 1, and then I
started seeing problems with that router as well.

I also tried the rtl8192ce driver from Realtek's website, and I'm having
better luck with that driver.

Seth