# Realtek 8192ce wireless not working

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**Category:** SLES Networking\
**Created:** [May 7, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/realtek-8192ce-wireless-not-working/29763 "2017-05-07T22:33:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/realtek-8192ce-wireless-not-working/29763/1 "2017-05-07T22:33:49Z")

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Hi.

I have downloaded and installed SLES 12SP2 + latest patches. My machine has two networking adapters  
lspci output  
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) \<\<\< on board adpater  
05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) \<\<\< pci adpater

lspci -nnk  
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)  
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000]  
Kernel driver in use: r8169  
Kernel modules: r8169  
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178] (rev 01)  
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178]

lspci -vnn  
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)  
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000]  
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30  
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]  
Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]  
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]  
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3  
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+  
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01  
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-  
Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data  
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting  
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel  
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00  
Kernel driver in use: r8169  
Kernel modules: r8169

05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178] (rev 01)  
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178]  
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 10  
I/O ports at d000 [disabled] [size=256]  
Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]  
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3  
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+  
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00  
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting  
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel  
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-91-81-fe-ff-4c-e0-00

Wired adapter is working well however wireless isn´t.

Others command executed:  
iwlist scan  
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

ifconfig  
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:DE:80:F7:D9:53  
inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0  
inet6 addr: fe80::96de:80ff:fef7:d953/64 Scope:Link  
inet6 addr: 2804:14d:1c82:54bd:96de:80ff:fef7:d953/64 Scope:Global  
inet6 addr: 2804:14d:1c82:54bd:9944:5b80:408b:3cbb/64 Scope:Global  
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1  
RX packets:8749 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:0  
TX packets:2459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0  
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000  
RX bytes:627021 (612.3 Kb) TX bytes:1433685 (1.3 Mb)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback  
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0  
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host  
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1  
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0  
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1  
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I appreciate any help to fix it.

Regards

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> [@](#):
>
> On Sun 07 May 2017 07:34:02 PM CDT, mbitenco wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I have downloaded and installed SLES 12SP2 + latest patches. My machine  
> has two networking adapters  
> lspci output  
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) \<\<\<  
> on board adpater  
> 05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE  
> PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) \<\<\< pci adpater
> 
> lspci -nnk  
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168]  
> (rev 06)  
> Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000]  
> Kernel driver in use: r8169  
> Kernel modules: r8169  
> 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178] (rev 01)  
> Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe  
> Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178]
> 
> lspci -vnn  
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168]  
> (rev 06)  
> Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000]  
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30  
> I/O ports at e000 [size=256]  
> Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]  
> Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]  
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3  
> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+  
> Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01  
> Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-  
> Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data  
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting  
> Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel  
> Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number  
> 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00  
> Kernel driver in use: r8169  
> Kernel modules: r8169
> 
> 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178] (rev 01)  
> Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe  
> Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8178]  
> Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 10  
> I/O ports at d000 [disabled] [size=256]  
> Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]  
> [size=16K]  
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3  
> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+  
> Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00  
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting  
> Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel  
> Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number  
> 01-91-81-fe-ff-4c-e0-00
> 
> Wired adapter is working well however wireless isn\_t.
> 
> Others command executed:  
> iwlist scan  
> lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
> 
> eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
> 
> ifconfig  
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:DE:80:F7:D9:53  
> inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255  
> Mask:255.255.255.0  
> inet6 addr: fe80::96de:80ff:fef7:d953/64 Scope:Link  
> inet6 addr: 2804:14d:1c82:54bd:96de:80ff:fef7:d953/64  
> Scope:Global  
> inet6 addr: 2804:14d:1c82:54bd:9944:5b80:408b:3cbb/64  
> Scope:Global  
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1  
> RX packets:8749 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:0  
> TX packets:2459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0  
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000  
> RX bytes:627021 (612.3 Kb) TX bytes:1433685 (1.3 Mb)
> 
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback  
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0  
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host  
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1  
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0  
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1  
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> I appreciate any help to fix it.
> 
> Regards

Hi  
Is the kernel-firmware package installed? Is this a laptop by chance  
(does it run windows), if so not a wireless hardware/Fn button switch?

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Hi malcom

it´s a desktop 32GB box

Its a pci card no switch

How can I check firmware upgrade?

Regards.

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**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/realtek-8192ce-wireless-not-working/29763/5 "2017-05-19T18:35:27Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> On Fri 19 May 2017 03:24:01 PM CDT, mbitenco wrote:
> 
> Hi malcom
> 
> it\_s a desktop 32GB box
> 
> Its a pci card no switch
> 
> How can I check firmware upgrade?
> 
> Regards.

Hi  
Run the command;

```auto
zypper in kernel-firmware
```

Can I also see the output from;

```auto
/sbin/lspci -nnk |grep Network -A3
```

I also see;

```auto
I/O ports at d000 [disabled] [size=256]
```

No BIOS setting(s) to reset the interrupts or try a different PCI slot?

Also browse the output from dmesg or journalctl -x to see if anything  
jumps out.

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