From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Phillip Moss <phillipmoss12@yahoo.es>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Signal loss rtl8723ae wifi driver
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:45:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520AFD5C.3010905@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376411031.31841.YahooMailBasic@web171406.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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On 08/13/2013 11:23 AM, Phillip Moss wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a rtl8723ae wifi card on my laptop. When connecting to any wifi Access Point
> the wifi signal fluctuates from full strength to very low. In order to connect and
> stay connected I must be no farther than two meters from my router otherwise I get
> disconnected. I have tried the kernel driver on multiple distros as well as the
> vendor drivers for older kernel versions. All seem to have the same problem. The card
> works ok on Windows 7 with vendor drivers. I have also tried compiling
> backports-3.10-rc1-2 with no luck. During a signal loss period I get no logs but if I
> take the laptop too far from the AP dmesg reports:
Philip,
Could you try the attached patch?
Larry
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/trx.c
index c72758d..75cf6fe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/trx.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static void _rtl8723ae_query_rxphystatus(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
/* CCK gain is smaller than OFDM/MCS gain,
* so we add gain diff. From experience, the val is 6
*/
- pwdb_all += 6;
+ pwdb_all += 10;
if (pwdb_all > 100)
pwdb_all = 100;
/* modify the offset to make the same
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-13 16:23 Signal loss rtl8723ae wifi driver Phillip Moss
2013-08-14 3:23 ` Larry Finger
2013-08-16 14:27 ` poma
2013-08-16 14:40 ` Larry Finger
2013-08-14 3:45 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2013-08-20 20:50 ` Phillip Moss
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