For anyone else with the misfortune to have a laptop with the RTL8723BE wifi chipset, be cautious about upgrading the kernel to 4.12 or later. It might still work if you use antenna 2, but I can't verify that. In my case with ant_sel=1, the wifi can't see anything with the 4.12 kernel or higher.
I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486463 if anyone else wants to follow it. There was a patch related to ant_sel not working that was applied to 4.13, but it was reverted due to a null pointer problem.
On 08/29/2017 01:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
For anyone else with the misfortune to have a laptop with the RTL8723BE wifi chipset, be cautious about upgrading the kernel to 4.12 or later. It might still work if you use antenna 2, but I can't verify that. In my case with ant_sel=1, the wifi can't see anything with the 4.12 kernel or higher.
I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486463 if anyone else wants to follow it. There was a patch related to ant_sel not working that was applied to 4.13, but it was reverted due to a null pointer problem. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
Try https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RTL8723_COMMON.html https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=313334 which discusses *WIFI & rtl8723 chip*
On 08/29/2017 01:21 PM, JD wrote:
On 08/29/2017 01:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
For anyone else with the misfortune to have a laptop with the RTL8723BE wifi chipset, be cautious about upgrading the kernel to 4.12 or later. It might still work if you use antenna 2, but I can't verify that. In my case with ant_sel=1, the wifi can't see anything with the 4.12 kernel or higher.
I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486463 if anyone else wants to follow it. There was a patch related to ant_sel not working that was applied to 4.13, but it was reverted due to a null pointer problem.
Try https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RTL8723_COMMON.html https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=313334 which discusses *WIFI & rtl8723 chip*
Yes, I'm aware of the issues with this chipset, that's why I mentioned the ant_sel workaround I've been using. But with 4.12, that workaround doesn't work any more, so there's no wifi at all unless your laptop is nearly touching the access point.
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