RTL8188CE doesn't connect to any wifi access points

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Published on 2011-11-26T11:42:53Z Indexed on 2012/06/06 22:42 UTC
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I'm using network manager to connect. Also, tryed iwconfig. Results are same. I even try to connect to open access point — results are same. More information:

Drakmail@thinkpad-x220:~$ lspci  | grep Network | grep -v Ethernet
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

Drakmail@thinkpad-x220:~$ uname -a
Linux thinkpad-x220 3.1.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 26 02:19:49 UTC 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Drakmail@thinkpad-x220:~$ dmesg | tail -n 10
[  846.901574] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[  906.812461] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[  966.728810] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 1026.639676] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 1030.925574] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

At this moment I try to connect to open wifi ap:

[ 1031.252403] wlan0: direct probe to 00:24:8c:55:fa:ed (try 1/3)
[ 1031.451943] wlan0: direct probe to 00:24:8c:55:fa:ed (try 2/3)
[ 1031.651658] wlan0: direct probe to 00:24:8c:55:fa:ed (try 3/3)
[ 1031.851354] wlan0: direct probe to 00:24:8c:55:fa:ed timed out
[ 1086.544960] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

My distribution:

Drakmail@thinkpad-x220:~$ cat /etc/*version
AgiliaLinux release 8.0.0 (Sammy)

(Something between Slackware and Archlinux).

Also, I saw that wifi module to often trying to load a firmware file.

Any ideas what it would be?

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