Comment 92 for bug 1788997

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Thees Flatow (fan80) wrote :

Suffering from weak rtl8723be wifi signal and new to proposed updates.

What I have done:

1. Make sure there are no more updates from non-propopsed sources (main, universe).
2. Enable proposed updates in GUI (this updates package list automatically).
3. back to command-line (just to feel safe): $ sudo apt-get update
4. $ sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic/bionic-proposed
5. $ sudo reboot

Weak signal! :-(

$ uname -a
Linux a12 4.15.0-48-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 3 08:28:49 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii linux-image-4.15.0-20-generic 4.15.0-20.21 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-4.15.0-47-generic 4.15.0-47.50 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-4.15.0-48-generic 4.15.0-48.51 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-generic 4.15.0.48.50 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image

With ant_sel=2 I do get strong signal, though. But as that requires manual intervention ...

I cannot confirm this bug being solved with kernel in proposed updates.