2015-01-26 21:32:49

by Larry Finger

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Subject: Re: rtl8192ee issues

On 01/26/2015 02:47 PM, Burton Williams wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> I am having problems with getting my wireless card to work. Here is what i did.
>
> I downloaded backports 3.18.1 and compiled and installed the wifi package
> against my 3.17.8 kernel. (I'm running FC21). Then i modprobe -r r8192ee and
> modprobe rtl8192ee. On first attempt i was able to connect to a wifi network and
> see a link speed of more than 6mbs. (144 to be exact) So way better than i was
> seeing before. I however did not see the network that is broadcasting on 5ghz.
> Attached are copies of my dmesg from modprobe fwd.
>
> Please let me know if I can do something else, or if i did something
> incorrectly. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Hardware is t440s running FC21 kernel 3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64

To the best of my knowledge, the RTL8192EE chip has no 5 GHz radio, thus there
is no way you could see a 5 GHz AP. I will recheck that with Realtek and let you
know if my information is wrong.

Larry