Hi,

I've just installed Fedora 18 (64 bit) on a Fedora Satellite. My wifi adapter (as per lpsci -vnn) is Realtek RTL8188CE.

The system says I am connected to the local Wifi network, but I cannot link to the internet. I've tried every suggestion I've seen so far in these forums:

- Ping <IPaddress> doesn't work

- Ifconfig -a lists my wlan0 as an ethernet device! (with a different MAC address than p2p1, but with no router IP address). I also have a 'lo' device, not sure what that is for. 'lo' and 'wlan' have some activity (0 errors), ethernet none.

Any ideas of what I might try? Thank you, BG

A bit more info: route -n gives nothing. I don't have an /etc/resolve.conf file. iwconfig says access point is not associated and ESSID, fragment thr and power management are off (whatever that may mean).

Thank you, any ideas much appreciated.

now i managed to get the connection to start, but it stops in a few seconds and will not restart until i disconnect and connect it again. i am able to do nothing useful - please help if you can.

I'm having the same problem with mine. Did you ever find a solution? It seems to stay connected, so long as I ping my router/gateway; however I'm getting ping times over 100ms, and sometimes way higher than that. In Windows, it works flawlessly. Also, I had installed Ubuntu 13.04, with the same results. Ubuntu 12.10 worked without issue at all.

Jay

Hi Jay,

A partial solution was to boost the WiFi signal. It doesn't work perfectly - on bad days, I am still spending half of my time manually closing the connection and reopening it - on very bad days I still get no connection at all - but on good days I have decent connection. I don't know why it's worse with some OSs than with others.

Good luck!

I had similar problem with Toshiba Laptop.
I had installed Linux Mint 15 -Olivia 64 bits during first week of June 2013. It detects available Wi-Fi automatically.

Well Fedora is a "Research and Development " testing distro

Things are almost guarantied to not not work correctly sometimes .

That is life with using Fedora

learn how to fix it when it breaks

or use a different distro

Except fedora for what it is , or use something else .