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Re: RTL8723bu: poor signal and connection troubles

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On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/11/2018 05:30 AM, Barry Day wrote:

> One issue with rtl8723bu is that it needs to coexist with the bluetooth
> driver. When I wrote the rtl8723bu support that was no BT support for
> the chip in the kernel and it worked fine, at least for me. However if
> you load the BT driver for the dongle which someone pushed into the
> kernel since then, it is likely to hijack the antennas causing the weak
> signal you describe.

Yeah, that's why when testing the dongle I carefully disabled BT and
made sure no BT driver was probed at all. Still I can see the issue.
I honestly doubt that the problem is caused by BT coexistence. Any
other idea or suggestion to debug this problem?

Thanks,

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