Comment 94 for bug 1240940

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same issue as @avirup-das. I have the RTL8723BE on my HP Stream 11. I verified the wifi works great in Windows (8) so the internal card is okay.

Using Xubuntu-amd64 15.10 with new installed kernel 4.3.0 (same results as in kernel 4.2.0)

Wifi does work and the laptop connects to the network, but my wireless controller reports a very weak signal from my laptop. Ubuntu also reports a weak signal with connection to the AP. I can only connect to wifi when sitting next to the AP. (All my other devices can connect fine from a certain distance from the AP.)

Signal is stable (very near the AP) when sitting in the same place and there's no interference. Bandwidth/speed is between 1kb/sec and 100kb/sec max.

 # iwlist wlo1 txpower
returns Tx-Power at 20dBm (100mW), so that seems okay.

I've tried;
- Using newest lwfinger git driver: Getting the above results
- With and without the modprobe config options (tried on and off 'ips', 'msi', 'fwlps' and 'swlps'): "msi:Y" results in no connection, msi:N does give above results. No difference setting other options.
- Use ndiswrapper to use Windows drivers for this card: This doesn't change anything to the above.