On 10/02/2016 03:12 PM, Moby wrote:
TOSHIBA Satellite L775D/TKBSS laptop has severe packet drop with Realtek chipset based wifi cards. Builtin wifi based on Realtek RTL8188CE and a usb wifi adapter based on a different Realtekchip set both show heavy packet loss (around 60%). Nothing gets logged anywhere. Builtin Ethernet works fine.
I know the wifi infrastructure is good since many other laptops work fine. One of the other laptops is running the same version of Tumbleweed (same kernel version etc but 32 bit - the problematic machine is 64 bit) but a different (Broadcom) chipset based wifi also works great.
The machine is now running kernel 4.7.5-1-default, and I have installed each and every kernel update to show up in the Tumbleweed repos fairly faithfully. The problem with Realtek wifi started about 3 or so kernel updates ago.
Is anyone else seeing problems with Tumbleweed and Realtek chipset wifis? Any help pointing towards more diagnostic tools or solutions will be much appreciated.
I downgraded the kernel to 4.6.0-1-default, which had a known realtek wifi bug that is fixed with rtlwifi-quickfix-kmp-default-4.6_k4.6.0_1-3.1.x86_64.rpm. Installing 4.6.0-1-default with this one-off patch seems to have improved matters, I now suffer about 25% packet loss as opposed to about 65%. I could not go to any lower versions of the kernel since they throw up all other kinds of errors, which I assume are due to userland all being updated (e.g. wpa_supplicant etc). This very much appears to be a kernel issue with realtek chipsets. I got yet another USB wifi adapter (belkin) to try, but it is also based on a realtek chipset and has the same issues. -- --Moby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org