Hi,
I have been making my friends migrate from Windows to GNU/Linux. Since they were extreme begineers I installed Linux Mint on their computers. Most of the systems worked perfectly with a windows-gnulinux dual boot. But some new HP systems had the "feature" that only one OS can be installed at a time. However, I convinced them to remove Windows (Yay me!!) and installed Linux Mint only.
In those two systems, the Wireless card was Realtek RTL8723BE (as per the output of lspci
) and it was acting weird. The wifi works fine for some time and then it suddently just stops working. One way it was fixed was by disabling and re-enabling the device (by sudo rmmod rtl8723be && sudo modprobe rtl8723be
), but this was not practical each time.
After some internet searching, I got a solution. To disable fwlps and ips of RTL8723BE device. It was done using the following command
echo "options rtl8723be fwlps=N ips=N" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf
And did a reboot. Voila!! Internet is stable again and world is safe. :D