Just a short note: I have problems, too, with this card on Vivid. Usually, in less than one hour after going online the connection just gets stuck. Sometimes, the connection recovers after a few seconds or minutes, and data flows again. Sometimes it doesn't until the wireless is switched off and on, or the machine is rebooted. The behaviour is very erratic and random. When the connection is stuck, turning the wireless off via kubuntu's NetworkManager graphical client takes quite some time (10 seconds or so).
Fortunately, loading the driver with the option fwlps=0 solved the issue for me! Since I wrote the line: options rtl8723be fwlps=0 into the file /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf , I've had 36 hours of trouble-free wireless experience. As it was hard to survive 36 minutes online before without that line, this is already a great improvement for me! Apart from the unstable WiFi, I was also fighting with unstable suspend- to-RAM on my Laptop (Lenovo Yoga 2 with 13 inch screen). Once in a while, the computer would just crash or hang, when turned to suspend-to- RAM by closing the display. In that state it still consumes battery, so the CPU is not turned off correctly then. When re-opened later, the display stays dark. That problem has also disappeared since I added the beforementioned option to the rtl8732be driver. So I assume from my observations, that with fwlps=1 (the default), the driver or the card or both after some time get into an inconsistent state with the following symptoms: A) No more packets are received and/or transmitted B) Turning off the wireless LAN and unloading the driver takes a rather long time (a few seconds instead of a fraction of a second) C) suspend-to-RAM crashes or fails, and leaves the laptop in an unusable state (display off) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1461174 Title: Realtek Wifi card rtl8723be [10ec:b723] WiFi has an issue Status in HWE Next: Triaged Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My WiFi has an issue. --- ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: u 1785 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: u 1785 F.... pulseaudio DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=c2a5715c-c92c-47fa-9aa2-c6f6e03f21bf InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-09 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP 455 G2 Package: linux (not installed) ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-30-generic root=UUID=97d2645a-a2be-49ec-b1bd-37c43ab4eeb1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt3 PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.16.0-30-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.16.0-30-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.127.11 Tags: trusty Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True dmi.bios.date: 07/25/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: M75 Ver. 01.06 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 2235 dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: KBC Version 66.19 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 73612P10CU dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrM75Ver.01.06:bd07/25/2014:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHP455G2:pvrA3009CD10002:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn2235:rvrKBCVersion66.19:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP 455 G2 dmi.product.version: A3009CD10002 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1461174/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp