Wireless problems

[greg42]

Hi,
I just installed Mageia and my wireless wouldn't work on it. I have a rRealtek rtl8188ce wireless card. Mageia wasn't seeing my wireless card at all, I then found and installed a rtlwifi-firmware package and now Mageia sees my wireless card but when I scan for wireless networks it doesn't detect any. I've tried using ndiswrapper to install the windows driver but haven't been able to get it to work. I am a new linux user and don't know to much. I have the linux driver for it too but I'm not sure how to install it, any help is very much appreciated!

[digigold]

I have the exact same WIFI Card in the laptop I'm using now. Works great. After you install the rtwifi-firmware pkg:

#1 Reboot computer and make sure Wifi card is turned on. The light turns from orange to green on the wifi/f12 key on my hp Pavillion g7.
#2 If there is still trouble remove any existing network connections in MCC, than add the wifi with MCC as well

Let me know if this doesn't work, like I said I have this card and have used it with many a distro etc. So if you have any more questions let me know.

[greg42]

Still not working, when I hit connect on the wireless card card it tries to connect then comes up and says Wireless network down.

[oj]

You need to uninstall ndiswrapper and delete the connection, before you can try setting it up (as a new connection) with the linux driver. ndis conflicts with the native driver, and once you've tried ndiswrapper the connection is hooked.

[martinw]

It can be hard to remove ndiswrapper once it has been installed. If you have trouble with this, you could try the procedure I recommended in https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3992#p28888.

[greg42]

I removed ndiswrapper the way you said and reinstalled the rtl-wireless pack and it's working perfectly now! Thank you all for your help!