OK, I wasn't aware that it was only a Ubuntu issue. Sorry if it's sounded like I've criticised your work on the current driver - I assumed it was an issue affecting all. I've tried the 3.12.6 kernel but didn't notice any significant difference. Would you recommend filing a bug report with Ubuntu? If so, do you have any inkling where the Ubuntu devs should start looking for the problem? Thanks, Chris On 2 January 2014 21:26, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
