On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 17:49 +0300, George Vasiliou (GMAIL) wrote: > While the wifi network indicator was looking alive, I had no internet access > and also i had not even lan access. > Moreover wifi icon starts showing disconected and reconnected a lot of times. > > Once every 30 minutes i had some limited internet connection and then lost > again. > > Since Debian keeps the stable linux-image 3.16 , i was capable to boot with > stable kernel and wifi worked correctly. > > Using modprobe -r rtl8723be and again modprobe rtl8723be has no improvement. > > The strange thing is that i downgraded linux-image and linux-headers back to > the old good working version 4.7.0.1 / 4.7.5.1 using the /testing repository, > but still wifi refuses to work. That hardware works fine for me. But I'm on Debian Unstable. But given that you too are on a very recent kernel, it shouldn't matter if you are on Debian Stable or Unstable. The hardware is very dependent of the firmware, and the mode of operation in firmware. Please try the following: Load the module with these arguments: fwlps=0 swlps=1 I hope it'll solve your issue. -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response
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