On 08/29/2017 01:21 PM, JD wrote:
On 08/29/2017 01:55 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> For anyone else with the misfortune to have a laptop with the
> RTL8723BE wifi chipset, be cautious about upgrading the kernel to 4.12
> or later. It might still work if you use antenna 2, but I can't verify
> that. In my case with ant_sel=1, the wifi can't see anything with the
> 4.12 kernel or higher.
>
> I've filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486463 if
> anyone else wants to follow it. There was a patch related to ant_sel
> not working that was applied to 4.13, but it was reverted due to a
> null pointer problem.
Yes, I'm aware of the issues with this chipset, that's why I mentioned
the ant_sel workaround I've been using. But with 4.12, that workaround
doesn't work any more, so there's no wifi at all unless your laptop is
nearly touching the access point.