Re: Problems associating with RTL8188CE

Larry Finger
2012-01-26T23:50:43Z

On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> 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,

Are those AP's 802.11n devices that allow HT features on channel 1? I do not
know if we support that or not. On my 802.11n device, it automatically switches
to channel 3 when I enable HT, and that works.

I can connect to an 802.11g AP on channel 1 with no trouble.

Larry