Bug 1575276 - Wireless card RTL8723BE weak signal after upgrade.
Summary: Wireless card RTL8723BE weak signal after upgrade.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-05 15:45 UTC by todoesverso
Modified: 2022-09-25 17:50 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 15:44:42 UTC
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Description todoesverso 2018-05-05 15:45:23 UTC
Description of problem:
In Fedora 27 my wireless card RTL8723BE with option ant_sel=2 worked perfect until Fedora 27 added the kernel 4.16.3 that no matter what antenna I choose the signal was always weak (30cm from the AP to be able to get -57dbm). Booting with the previous kernel (4.14.13) solved the problem.
After upgrading to Fedora 28 with kernel 4.16.5 I have the same problem but now I don't have an older kernel to boot to. 


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#  iw dev wlo1 scan | egrep "SSID|signal"
	signal: -66.00 dBm
	SSID: Fibertel WiFi765
	signal: -78.00 dBm
	SSID: Fibertel WiFi906 2.4GHz

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf 
options rtl8723be ant_sel=2 ips=0 swenc=1 fwlps=0

# modinfo rtl8723be
filename:       /lib/modules/4.16.5-300.fc28.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/rtl8723be.ko.xz
firmware:       rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin
firmware:       rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin
description:    Realtek 8723BE 802.11n PCI wireless
license:        GPL
author:         Realtek WlanFAE	<wlanfae>
author:         PageHe	<page_he.cn>
alias:          pci:v000010ECd0000B723sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        rtlwifi,rtl8723-common,rtl_pci,btcoexist,mac80211
retpoline:      Y
intree:         Y
name:           rtl8723be
vermagic:       4.16.5-300.fc28.x86_64 SMP mod_unload 
sig_id:         PKCS#7
signer:         
sig_key:        
sig_hashalgo:   md4
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parm:           swenc:Set to 1 for software crypto (default 0)
 (bool)
parm:           ips:Set to 0 to not use link power save (default 1)
 (bool)
parm:           swlps:Set to 1 to use SW control power save (default 0)
 (bool)
parm:           fwlps:Set to 1 to use FW control power save (default 1)
 (bool)
parm:           msi:Set to 1 to use MSI interrupts mode (default 0)
 (bool)
parm:           aspm:Set to 1 to enable ASPM (default 1)
 (int)
parm:           debug_level:Set debug level (0-5) (default 0) (int)
parm:           debug_mask:Set debug mask (default 0) (ullong)
parm:           disable_watchdog:Set to 1 to disable the watchdog (default 0)
 (bool)
parm:           ant_sel:Set to 1 or 2 to force antenna number (default 0)
 (int)

Comment 2 Jeremy Cline 2018-05-23 19:05:36 UTC
Hi,

That patch was included in 4.16.9, can you confirm it fixes this?

Comment 3 todoesverso 2018-05-26 14:26:24 UTC
I can confirm it is fixed.

Comment 4 Laura Abbott 2018-05-29 15:44:42 UTC
Thanks for letting us know.

Comment 5 shenglu 2022-09-25 17:50:22 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

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