A couple of months ago I installed Rafaela on my laptop and from the beginning was unable to get wifi working. Till now it was not a big issue since I use the laptop at home and ethernet works just fine... Now that Christmas is approaching, I realize that I will be on the move and have been trying to solve the problem.
Things that I have tried so far, after browsing the forum, to no avail:
- /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf [code] options fwlps=0 [/code] After that, wifi seemed to connect, and the wireless network icon on the panel said I was connected, but browsers couldn't open any pages, saying that I had no connection :( I tried other combinations suggested in the forum with no better luck, the last one being: [code] options rtl8723be ips=N fwlps=N #options rtl8723be msi=1 [/code]
- ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi [code] sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms [/code] Now wifi tries and fails to connect several times, before giving up.
Here is the output of mintWifi.py:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
==> PCI ID = 10ec:b723
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:fa:5b:13:80:e8
inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::82fa:5bff:fe13:80e8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1982965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2025660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1788579428 (1.7 GB) TX bytes:1726808519 (1.7 GB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:26510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2802436 (2.8 MB) TX bytes:2802436 (2.8 MB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ac:b5:7d:98:ba:ca
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.241
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.242
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.246
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.247
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.251
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.212
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.216
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.217
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.221
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.222
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.226
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.227
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.231
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.232
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.236
Name: google.com
Address: 62.38.6.237
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System: Host: username-W51XTU Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.13 (Gtk 3.10.8) Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: Mobo: Notebook model: W51XTU version: V1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: 5.6.5 date: 12/01/2014
CPU: Dual core Intel Celeron CPU N2808 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 6323.2
Clock Speeds: 1: 999.635 MHz 2: 901.706 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel ValleyView Gen7 bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Bay Trail GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Intel ValleyView High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2: Roland driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 001-007
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8723be port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 01:00.2
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3030.6GB (37.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD1 size: 1000.2GB
2: id: /dev/sdb model: KINGSTON_SMS200S size: 30.0GB 3: USB id: /dev/sdc model: Elements_10B8 size: 2000.4GB
Partition: ID: / size: 31G used: 14G (47%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 880G used: 65G (8%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 6.44GB used: 0.02GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 191 Uptime: 11:20 Memory: 1641.0/3833.2MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17