Realtek 8723 Wifi card regression

[Jan Groenewald]

Toshiba Satellite C850-F32Z laptop
(internal ref simachew)

Running Ubuntu 12.04.1, kernel 3.2.0-32 the realtek wireless card works,
after upgrade to 3.2.0-33 the system boots without detecting it.

dmesg|grep rtl shows nothing (under 33, but works fine under 32).

The modules are rtl8273e and rtlwifi.

PS. This laptop also runs fglrx drivers, in case that is important.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Waseem Elliot (waseem-x)]

I can get this work on the 3.2.0.33 kernel using the instructions on the below link :

http://askubuntu.com/questions/163141/drivers-for-realtek-wireless-module-for-toshiba-c850-a965

However, after sometime time the wireless stops working again,then i have to follow the above procedure to make it work again (temporarily).

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jan Groenewald, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available (not the daily folder) following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.12

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]