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/