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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:06:23 -0600
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems associating with RTL8188CE
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 05:50:39PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> >Sorry for the long silence on this, I was busy with some other things.
> >But I've been playing with it again this week and uncovered some new
> >information regarding the failures.
> >
> >I noticed the other day that the rtl8188ce was no longer having trouble
> >associating with this AP. After playing around in the router settings I
> >discovered that it works fine so long as the router isn't on channel 1.
> >So then I configured my other router to use channel 1, and then I
> >started seeing problems with that router as well.
> >
> >I also tried the rtl8192ce driver from Realtek's website, and I'm having
> >better luck with that driver.
> 
> Seth,
> 
> Are those AP's 802.11n devices that allow HT features on channel 1?
> I do not know if we support that or not. On my 802.11n device, it
> automatically switches to channel 3 when I enable HT, and that
> works.
> 
> I can connect to an 802.11g AP on channel 1 with no trouble.

Whether or not HT is enabled makes no difference. One is an older
802.11g router, and on the other I see the same problems with or without
HT enabled.

Seth