Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:36025 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752118AbbHGDLQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:11:16 -0400 Received: by pacrr5 with SMTP id rr5so41743046pac.3 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT) From: AceLan Kao To: Larry Finger , Chaoming Li , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8723be: disable FW control power save Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:11:13 +0800 Message-Id: <1438917073-5720-1-git-send-email-acelan.kao@canonical.com> (sfid-20150807_051120_214367_BEC43593) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: There are many rtl8723be wifi unstable issues that wifi lost connection after working for a while. The wifi signal and status it's show connected also ifconfig have IP but can not connect to internet and filed to ping 8.8.8.8 The problem should result from the power saving controlled by firmware. I'd suggest to disable it by default and re-enable it after firmware fixes this issue. BTW. the firmware I tested from linux-firmware git tree is rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin be225d6 Update firmware for rtl8723be Signed-off-by: AceLan Kao --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c index 1017f02..02fe2cc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static struct rtl_mod_params rtl8723be_mod_params = { .sw_crypto = false, .inactiveps = true, .swctrl_lps = false, - .fwctrl_lps = true, + .fwctrl_lps = false, }; static struct rtl_hal_cfg rtl8723be_hal_cfg = { -- 2.1.4