Realtek RTL8188CE problem

Hi all,
I'm running into problems with the wifi card on my new Christmas present. It's a Realtek RTL8188CE. When I booted the Arch netinstall image I could get it to associate to the access point but it wouldn't pick up an address. I ended up doing the base install using a Mint live cd. Had no wifi problems at all in Mint. When I booted back into the Arch base system I again had no problem associating with the access point and picked up an address after 2 or 3 attempts. However, the network still disappears every few seconds. When I try to ping google I'll get 8 or 10 returns and then 15-20 lines of network unavailable then a few returns again and so on.
Any ideas?
Thanks...

On my laptop, I cannot get an IP adress...
root@theodore:~|⇒ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:9196]
Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: JMicron Technology Corp. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [197b:0250] (rev 05)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:4140]
Kernel driver in use: jme
root@theodore:~|⇒ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
root@theodore:~|⇒ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
root@theodore:~|⇒ cat /var/log/everything.log | grep -e rtl -e firmware -e wlan -e wpa -e etwork | tail -n55
Jan 9 19:43:11 theodore kernel: [ 5728.251545] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 19:43:17 theodore kernel: [ 5734.516618] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 19:43:23 theodore kernel: [ 5740.782225] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 19:43:30 theodore kernel: [ 5747.050581] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 19:43:39 theodore kernel: [ 5756.443892] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 19:43:40 theodore kernel: [ 5756.942751] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 19:43:41 theodore kernel: [ 5758.231396] wlan0: authenticate with 'MAC2' (try 1)
Jan 9 19:43:41 theodore kernel: [ 5758.233104] wlan0: authenticated
Jan 9 19:43:41 theodore kernel: [ 5758.233154] wlan0: associate with 'MAC2' (try 1)
Jan 9 19:43:41 theodore kernel: [ 5758.241721] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 'MAC2' (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
Jan 9 19:43:41 theodore kernel: [ 5758.241730] wlan0: associated
Jan 9 19:43:55 theodore dhcpcd[7382]: wlan0: broadcasting for a lease
Jan 9 19:46:54 theodore kernel: [ 5951.426319] wlan0: deauthenticating from 'MAC2' by local choice (reason=3)
Jan 9 20:14:17 theodore kernel: [ 7591.439953] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 20:14:17 theodore kernel: [ 7591.939273] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Jan 9 20:14:19 theodore kernel: [ 7593.214648] wlan0: authenticate with 'MAC2' (try 1)
Jan 9 20:14:19 theodore kernel: [ 7593.222380] wlan0: authenticated
Jan 9 20:14:19 theodore kernel: [ 7593.222440] wlan0: associate with 'MAC2' (try 1)
Jan 9 20:14:19 theodore kernel: [ 7593.420634] wlan0: associate with 'MAC2' (try 2)
Jan 9 20:14:19 theodore kernel: [ 7593.620348] wlan0: associate with 'MAC2' (try 3)
Jan 9 20:14:19 theodore kernel: [ 7593.820049] wlan0: association with 'MAC2' timed out
root@theodore:~|⇒ dmesg | grep rtl
[ 32.900575] rtl8192ce 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 32.900584] rtl8192ce 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 33.247447] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
[ 33.247618] rtlwifi: wireless switch is on
[ 4482.954309] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 4508.421414] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 4526.530448] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 4532.418261] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 4535.989218] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 4539.320451] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[ 4549.201949] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
Last edited by LC (2012-01-09 20:14:00)

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