Hello,
I have mailed with Larry Finger asking for a problem and he has
pointed me to this list.
I am an Arch Linux User with a Clevo based laptop.
It ships with the RTL8723AE. I have been reading posts around the net
and found that some people are having problems and talking about the
driver and something about the RX or TX Power.
With the 2 APs wich I usually use I can only reach 18Mb/s of Bit rate
whatever the signal level or link quality is. Both of them are 802.11
G and not N I think.
The connection is very unstable. Sometimes powering the wifi off and
on increases the performance a bit when it's impossible to do anything
(pings to gateway don't reply)
If they are related to the driver, I would be proud to help with
anything that I am able to. Testing for example.
I have a recent version of the stable Kernel but I dont know if the
firmware files are up to date.
Some data:
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723AE
PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 0726
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at f7900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-23-87-fe-ff-4c-e0-00
Kernel driver in use: rtl8723ae
Kernel modules: rtl8723ae
root ~ dmesg | grep rtl
[ 2.734124] rtl8723ae 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 2.749732] rtl8723ae: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8723fw_B.bin
[ 2.752940] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
[ 2.753057] rtlwifi: wireless switch is on
[ 8838.570486] rtlwifi: wireless switch is o
root ~ uname -a
Linux DPini-Laptop 3.12.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 29 21:14:15
CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Iwconfig:
wlp3s0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Pinis_AP"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1A:2B:12:34:56
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:9 Missed beacon:0
root ~ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
root ⋯ lib firmware rtlwifi md5sum rtl8723fw*
ce50dfe07dbb1bfe9e14bdb315a4b28a rtl8723fw_B.bin
69ccaffbe94cc0ef1b89c25290e19b2e rtl8723fw.bin
Thank you for all, and sorry for my English.
Best regards,
David
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