F14 RTL8192E Staging Drivers

[fnshman]

OK --I've installed the RPMFusion staging drivers for my wireless.
I get a signal

Output from iwconfig:

iwconfig


lo no wireless extensions.



wlan0
802.11bgn ESSID:"ThePetes"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:24:01:40:0E:B6
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm
Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0



eth0 no wireless extensions.

output from iwlist scan

iwlist scan


lo Interface doesn't support scanning.


wlan0
Scan completed :

Cell 01 - Address: 00:24:01:40:0E:B6 ESSID:"ThePetes"
Protocol:IEEE802.11g Mode:Master Channel:11
Encryption key:off Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality=76/100 Signal level=-60 dBm Noise level=-108 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 8ms ago



eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.


I still can't connect to the network.
What am I missing---a setting? a configuration?

iwlist scan shows a 76/100 signal

iwconfig shows 0/100 signal

I'm stumped

fnshman

[fnshman]

Update---automatically connected when first logged in, but only stayed connected for a couple minutes. Haven't connected since. Also haven't made any changes since the first post. Must be a conflict with something.

[fnshman]

Going to try uninstalling drivers and then reinstalling them. No time today though---will keep everyone updated as to progress.

[fnshman]

OK---VERY strange---uninstalled then reinstalled drivers. Same results as before. gave up for a few days. just booted up Fedora and watching the startup screen, my wlan0 connected!!!! and so far is still connected. The only thing I've done different is to turn off the wireless for my second access point. must have been confused as to which one to connect to even though I configured each to a specific MAC address. OH well--it's working and that's all I care about.
Just a note two access points with the same SSID may have confused it as well. The two AP's worked well in Windblows 7 Home Premium64. Go figure??

[fnshman]

OK---Here we go again. Wireless works VERY sporadically. Upon a Google search, I am finding this driver works when it feels like it. After a fresh install of F15 and updating to the latest kernel, (2.6.38.7-30), I get this from dmesg.

dmesg |grep disabling

[ 0.289734] pnp 00:02: disabling [mem 0xf0503900-0xf0503bff] because it overlaps 0000:00:09.0 BAR 14 [mem 0xf0500000-0xf05fffff]

[ 0.290558] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x0022-0x0023] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290563] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x002e-0x002f] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290567] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x0068] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290571] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x006c] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290575] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x0072-0x0073] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290579] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x0080-0x0081] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290583] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x00b0-0x00b1] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290587] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x0092] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

[ 0.290592] pnp 00:09: disabling [io 0x00b2-0x00bf] because it overlaps 0000:02:00.0 BAR 0 [io 0x0000-0x00ff]

and this from lspci


lspci output

00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4)


02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

Is this supposed to disable at boot, or is there a bug in the kernel causing the problem?
I also get firmware initialization failures, but I'll have to reboot into F15 to get the exact message---in Windblows7 now. Will post those lines later.

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The output from Dmesg for rtl8192e drv

[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 28 pages/cpu @ffff8800b7c00000 s83200 r8192 d23296 u1048576
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s83200 r8192 d23296 u1048576 alloc=1*2097152
[ 17.617103] Linux kernel driver for RTL8192 based WLAN cards
[ 17.617160] rtl819xE 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 17.617168] rtl819xE 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 55.548042] rtl819xE:ERR in CPUcheck_firmware_ready()
[ 55.548059] rtl819xE:ERR in init_firmware()
[ 55.548073] rtl819xE:ERR!!! NicIFEnableNIC(): initialization is failed!
[ 85.546060] rtl819xE:ERR in CPUcheck_firmware_ready()
[ 85.546080] rtl819xE:ERR in init_firmware()
[ 85.546094] rtl819xE:ERR!!! NicIFEnableNIC(): initialization is failed!

also get MANY lines of this

[ 85.557084] rtl819xE:No more TX desc@6, ring->idx = 0,idx = 0,52