Hello Larry, First of all, thanks your help. Lets see...here is the kernel version: 4.13.12-300 The machine is an Asus ROG 553VE The firmware which loading in the dmesg is : rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin The output of md5sum is : 1850c1308fbcd95e9f6a7f58ede1e35f Thanks again, Best Regards, Gergely 2017-11-17 16:51 keltezéssel, Larry Finger írta: > On 11/17/2017 02:16 AM, Rákosi Gergely wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to use rtl8723be wifi on Fedora27 but I still get continuosly >> disconnection. The error in the dmesg is "Init MAC failed" >> I tried with the following module options too : "fwlps=0 swlps=0" and >> the variant of "ant_sel=1 or 2 or 0" >> I downloaded the git files from your repo, and do the usual make,make >> install, and modprobe stuffs, and then restart the notebook, but I get >> the same result. > > I know from the E-mail you sent to me privately that you are new to > this process, thus I am going to give you some pointers. It is > important for you to give your kernel version. Yes, for devoted Fedora > users, saying that you are using F27 might be sufficient; however, I > am not one of them. You should always supply the output of the command > 'uname -r'. > > On the RTL8723BE, "Init MAC failed" is not the dmesg that is expected > from either the HP ant_sel problem, or a power-save problem. > Incidentally, although there are many "fixes" that require modifying > the XXps options, the underlying cause of that issue was fixed almost > one year ago. > > The main software component that might be wrong is the firmware. > Please find the name of the firmware file that is being loaded from > the dmesg output. It will be rtlwifi/... Once you locate that name, > run the command > > md5sum /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/xxx > > Substitute the actual name for the xxx. Post the output of the md5sum. > > Larry
