Hi Ron,

I also have a Samsung netbook with the same wireless card (RTL8192E). The bad news is that there isn't an in-kernel driver for it yet, but the good news is that Realtek have released an open-source driver out into the wild that works well with my F13 install. I can't remember exactly where I got it from (there's no link for it on the Realtek website), but if you do a Google search there are a few people out there who have it available for public download. Many users have also contacted Realtek directly, and found them to be very helpful - I've previously been in contact with a guy called Kidman (kidman@realtek.com).

I had one or two issues getting the kernel module to load on boot in my x86_64 installation, if this happens to you please feel free to email me and I'll let you know what I did to fix it.

Hope this helps!
Best wishes
Nathan

On 05/10/10 09:45, Ron Leach wrote:
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:16:20 +0100
Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> wrote:

Under F14, Network manager does not seem to recognise any WiFi access 
points and, after adding some, still does not see them to connect to. 
  The 'network icon' in the panel has a 'red cross' against it.

What wireless card is it? 

lspci and/or lsusb should tell you. 

Here an extract from lspci -v :

05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7160
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
	Memory at f0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number <stripped>

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c073
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
	Memory at f0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [5c] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [c0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [130] Device Serial Number <stripped>
	Kernel driver in use: sky2
	Kernel modules: sky2

On a different netbook, Acer AspireOne (on which F13 XFCE is 
installed), while F13 does find the inbuilt wireless system and
lights a WiFi LED, the F14 RC3 XFCE liveCD does not find the
wireless, and the WiFi LED on the AspireOne does not light.

I'll do some more checks of dmesg to see how far F14 gets in finding 
the WiFi system.  Are there other files I should check?
I would first look at lspci/lsusb to figure out what card it is, then
go from there. dmesg might also be informative. 

This post is saying that, on another netbook (for comparison), F13 
finds the wireless (on an Acer AspireOne netbook), but F14 RC3 does 
not.  So it seems that there's something different between F13 and F14 
in respect of wireless support.

I'll post back with details of this other netbook, Acer AspireOne, too.

thanks, Ron
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