I've just installed Ubuntu on an HP Pavilion and I'm having difficulty with the wireless driver. Initially, the connection would drop after a couple minutes of connectivity.
I tried several solutions, most of which involved compiling and installing different driver versions. At one point, connectivity was improved but still had issues. I tried the instructions here http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2219952.html but didn't notice any change.
After a restart, I can no longer connect with wireless. Wired connection is fine. Output of lshw -C network:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fea00000-fea03fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
and the output of lspci -nn | grep 0280 is:
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:b723]
I tried repeating some of the driver installs but nothing changed. I also tried following the various links in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2205497 but all the repos with my device version (RTL8723BE) are empty.
I'm new to ubuntu and thought I should ask for help here instead of blindly following any more instructions. Any help would be appreciated.
