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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:26:06 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Chris Taylor <chris.taylor@cantab.net>
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Subject: Re: RTL8723ae PCI Driver update
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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