From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Chris Taylor <chris.taylor@cantab.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RTL8723ae PCI Driver update
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:26:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C5D96E.7060306@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC94StR7qDESmMiOkrDnFjmOqbmMQNJqMd=zMnMCMZR9tPmi7Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/02/2014 02:44 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:
> Larry,
>
> Thank you for your reply and filling me on the correct netiquette re: driver
> mailing lists.
>
> The PCI ID I have is 10ec:8723, but the built-in version seems to suffer from
> the slow data rates, poor signal reception and regular dropouts that many users
> seems to be experiencing with this chipset (at least going by e.g. the Ubuntu
> forums). I wanted to try compiling my own module from the Realtek source but I
> think I need a patch to get that to work in kernel 3.11? But I also wondered if
> it were worth trying a later kernel to see if any of the regular updates have
> improved things?
As I cannot duplicate the results that Ubuntu users seem to have, I don't know
if there are changes that will help.
It seems to me that there is something in the Ubuntu user code that is having
problems. I run openSUSE KDE with NetworkManages, and I never have any of those
difficulties.
Although no changes in rtl8723ae come to mind, there are many changes in the
mca80211 stack. It is always worthwhile to try a newer kernel, or the backports
source if you do not want to build a whole new kernel.
Larry
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2014-01-02 20:46 ` Fwd: RTL8723ae PCI Driver update Chris Taylor
2014-01-02 21:26 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2014-01-03 21:14 ` Chris Taylor
2014-01-03 21:30 ` Larry Finger
2014-01-03 22:06 ` Chris Taylor
2014-01-03 23:23 ` Larry Finger
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