Wireless recognized, but disabled

Chessmanexe · #1 29th September 2011, 05:15 AM

I had some driver issues, and still might, but I just installed fedora 13 (trying to upgrade currently to the latest), and I have the wireless driver installed and in the menu I can see the wireless connections, but there are no SSID's showing. Below is select excerpts of LSHW.

Code:

*-network DISABLED
                description: Wireless interface
                product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                logical name: wlan0
                version: 01
                serial: ac:81:12:a0:b0:3c
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192CE driverversion=0006.0321.2011 firmware=0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=802.11bg
                resources: irq:18 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:b4400000-b4403fff

Later on, you see this:

Code:


	Code:
	 *-generic UNCLAIMED
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.6
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
             version: 05
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:b6404000-b6404fff

Is it possible I installed incorrect drivers? I have a RLT8188CE installed in my HP Pavilion g6t-1c00 Laptop.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

bbfuller · #2 29th September 2011, 09:38 AM

Hello Chessmanexe

Quote:

Is it possible I installed incorrect drivers

Maybe!

What did you install?

Code:

lspci

for the wireless card would be interesting as well.

Quote:

in the menu I can see the wireless connections, but there are no SSID's showing

If that means you can see a "wlan0" or equivalent but no ssid's, try:

Code:

yum install rfkill

and:

Code:

rfkill list

to see if any switching is blocking the wireless card.

With the name of the driver and the name of the wireless interface it should be possible to run:

Code:

dmesg | grep <either of those two names>

and find what conditions the wireless meets as the machine boots.