Fedora 17 support on RTL8188ce

[metallicsoul92]

Hello, i have recently just purchased a toshiba laptop with the realtek RTL8188ce WLAN network card and installed fedora 17 on it,i get problems where the network just stops working and then will become unavailable. I searched for drivers but i believe they are out of date for the current kernel i am using ( im usually using 3.3.4 because that one is able to use the network for a bit till it stops) i also have kernels 3.4.1 and 3.5.1. is there any solutions i can do in order for me to use even 3.3.4 kernel with the network card

[angryfirelord]

I was only able to find this result: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770207

Daniel Williams 2012-07-24 07:50:13 EDT
Hi All

Iv found out a few things with regards this problem, when trouble shooting a wifi usb card, on another fedora 17 machine, wifi card using winxp drivers via ndiswrapper, and when trying to connect the my router, i had the same problem, both machines f17 64, different wifi cards, same problem.

I did find however, that both pc's worked fine with the router turned from ng mode to n mode only, connecting at 177mb/s +, and its been running for a few hours now with no issues.

Maybe someone else can try the same thing and confirm the result?

PS. Thank you to all involved in the creation of and awesome OS!

Unfortunately, if it's a bug, then there's not much I'll be able to do. I'd try compiling the drivers from source anyway. Another bugzilla report seems to show how to do this (post #7): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815870

[davfin]

Hi metallicsoul92,

I had the same problem with a Toshiba S855D laptop, Fedora 17 detected the Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless card which was disconnecting as you mentioned, but it failed to detect the Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller (NDIS 6.20) card. When I checked Network manager only the wirless card was present.
Please note my system was dual booting with Windows 7. I eventually took the laptop back and I am currently looking for something to replace it.

Thanks

davfin.

[metallicsoul92]

davfin, i am also having that problem, haha i was trying to dual boot with windows 7, but instead i accidentally deleted my windows 7 partition >.<