Re: [RTL8723AE] Driver problems

[Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>]

Am 18.10.2013 02:55, schrieb André Martins:
> Hi!
> This is a copy I've sent to Larry Finger and his bot told me to sent to
> this e-mail address instead.
> Basically I've bought a computer with the 8723ae card and unfortunately the
> wireless connection is really bad. Although I'm a last year student on
> MSc in
> computers and telematics engineering I don't have any skills what so
> ever on
> kernel's source code. Thus, I want to ask you if you could help me out
> and tell
> me where to begin to fix this and create a great rtl8723ae driver for
> Linux. I
> could help you with the tests what whatever I could. The main problem
> with this
> card is the connection on my university, it's always dropping and
> impossible to
> have a stable connection. On my house I'm a few meters way of my AP and
> the link
> quality is either on 38/70 or 70/70.
> Since you take the time to read this e-mail I thank you already.
> Thanks,
> André Martins

Hi André,

start with googling for "linux wlan troubleshooting".
Use latest kernel wifi source code:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next.git/

If you can compile kernel by your self, then you can do some changes on
kernel. See how driver works, add "printk("%s:%i\ņ", __func__,
__LINE__);" every where and monitore dmesg. The driver is located here:
linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae

If you wont to help with this driver, do not fear to brake you kernel ;)
-- 
Regards,
Oleksij