Realtek RTL8723AE: Slow and intermittent wifi loss

[HousieMousie2]

Interesting issue with two Realtek cards/drivers I have — was that they sometimes got cranky if both wired and wireless were enabled. I had to disable whichever I was not using to get a good connection/good speed on wireless and to keep it from complaining about losing the wireless connection when I was on wired. lol It was solved for both of my cards in eventual updates (though at different points in time/with different updates) without doing anything special.

Just tossing that out there in case someone else runs into the same strange issue.

[aanton]

I had the same problem with Ubuntu 13.04 and kernel 3.8.X. It now seems fixed after using this modified driver that i found in GitHub:
https://github.com/vicre/rtl_92ce_92...2013_revison_1

And i found a page for new kernels:
http://blog.83c.org/how-to-compile-t...ux-kernel-3-8/

I hope it works for you.

Regards,
Armando

[anbuck]

Hey, aanton. Thanks for the tip! I actually already purchased and installed a new card though that is working great, so I won't be able to try your suggestion. Thanks again and I'm glad that you found a solution!

[Tim_Hallett]

Aanton

Being a newbie with the 8188ee card, and connection issues, I'd love it if you would help {Edited: See next post]

[Tim_Hallett]

Got the tarball, but the make command fails with Error 1 and Error 2

make -C /lib/modules/3.11.0-12-generic/build M=/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-12-generic'
CC [M] /home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.o
/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.c: In function ‘rtl_action_proc’:
/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.c:885:32: error: ‘struct ieee80211_conf’ has no member named ‘channel’
rx_status.freq = hw->conf.channel->center_freq;
^
/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.c:886:32: error: ‘struct ieee80211_conf’ has no member named ‘channel’
rx_status.band = hw->conf.channel->band;
^
/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.c: In function ‘rtl_send_smps_action’:
/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.c:1451:24: error: ‘struct ieee80211_conf’ has no member named ‘channel’
info->band = hw->conf.channel->band;
^
make[2]: *** [/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master/base.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/tim/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_8723ae_88ee_linux_mac80211_0012 .0516.2013_revison_1-master] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-12-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Tim_Hallett]

Now I did a make uninstall on my backports package, now no wireless at all: make install on backports did not restore it (yes I rebooted after install)

[chili555]

Now I did a make uninstall on my backports package, now no wireless at all: make install on backports did not restore it (yes I rebooted after install)

Since you have an rtl8188ee, not the subject of this thread, I suggest you start your own new thread. I'll be happy to help.