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RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter not working



Hi,

 

I run a

 

root@Silberkiste:~# lspci |grep Network

01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

root@Silberkiste:~#

 

on Debian jessie with a recent kernel from backports

 

root@Silberkiste:~# uname -a

Linux Silberkiste 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1~bpo8+1 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@Silberkiste:~#

 

I added the adapter to /etc/network/interfaces:

 

root@Silberkiste:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

 

# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

 

# The primary network interface

allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

 

# WLAN interface

allow-hotplug wlan0

 

 

 

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid LS6

wpa-psk <passkey>

# wpa-driver wext

# wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK

 

root@Silberkiste:~#

 

 

But I do not get the network up and running:

 

dmesg states

 

[ 3.787915] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

[ 3.788155] [drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 2 usecs

[ 3.789155] [drm] ring test on 1 succeeded in 2 usecs

[ 3.789195] [drm] ring test on 2 succeeded in 3 usecs

[ 3.789428] [drm] ring test on 3 succeeded in 4 usecs

[ 3.789437] [drm] ring test on 4 succeeded in 4 usecs

[ 3.792511] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

[ 3.794410] rtl8192ce 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

[ 3.807820] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'

[ 3.808174] rtlwifi: rtlwifi: wireless switch is on

[ 3.837689] [drm] ring test on 5 succeeded in 1 usecs

[ 3.839324] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input9

[ 3.845309] random: nonblocking pool is initialized

[ 3.857768] [drm] UVD initialized successfully.

[ 3.882699] AVX version of gcm_enc/dec engaged.

[ 3.882705] AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled

[ 3.924616] alg: No test for fips(ansi_cprng) (fips_ansi_cprng)

[ 3.956481] r8169 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw

[ 3.969039] [drm] ring test on 6 succeeded in 16 usecs

[ 3.969054] [drm] ring test on 7 succeeded in 3 usecs

[ 3.969056] [drm] VCE initialized successfully.

[ 3.971066] [drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded in 0 usecs

[ 4.079816] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link down

[ 4.079917] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

[ 4.080361] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link down

[ 4.089391] Adding 7815616k swap on /dev/sdb2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:7815616k FS

[ 4.089836] kvm: Nested Virtualization enabled

[ 4.089841] kvm: Nested Paging enabled

[ 4.469553] [drm] ib test on ring 1 succeeded in 0 usecs

[ 4.678134] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

 

 

/sbin/ifconfig shows:

 

root@Silberkiste:~# /sbin/ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 74:d4:35:7b:0d:c4

inet Adresse:192.168.178.56 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Maske:255.255.255.0

inet6-Adresse: fd00::76d4:35ff:fe7b:dc4/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Global

inet6-Adresse: fe80::76d4:35ff:fe7b:dc4/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metrik:1

RX packets:3582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:2828 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000

RX bytes:2784351 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:534169 (521.6 KiB)

 

lo Link encap:Lokale Schleife

inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0

inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metrik:1

RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1

RX bytes:15055 (14.7 KiB) TX bytes:15055 (14.7 KiB)

 

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 30:5a:3a:5d:6f:df

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metrik:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

 

root@Silberkiste:~#

 

Any idea why that is not working is welcome.

 

Many thanks

Rainer

 

 

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Rainer Dorsch

http://bokomoko.de/


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