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I have purchased a new HP Pavilion 15-ab030TX, just installed dual boot Ubuntu 14.04 next to Win8. But my wifi has been showing either very weak signal at times or none at all. I tried multiple solutions available on internet but nothing seems to work. Also i hosted connectify on another laptop and started using internet through that it worked for two days but it is also not connecting (probably due to trying some solution from old posts).

Pilot6
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pradex
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You need to install the driver using dkms. If you build it from the lwfinger git, it stops working after kernel upgrades.

I packed the same driver as DKMS and added it to a ppa. Install it this way:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms linux-firmware

and reboot.

Fabby
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Quite often, the weak signal is a symptom of the antenna wire being connected to connection #1 on the card when the default driver is expecting to see the signal at connection #2. Of course, you could open the laptop and switch the wire or you could install a newer driver that permits antenna selection at the driver level.

Please obtain a temporary ethernet connection by ethernet, tethered or whatever means possible. Open a terminal and do:

wget https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/archive/rock.new_btcoex.zip
unzip rock.new_btcoex.zip
cd rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex
make
sudo -i
make install
echo "options rtl8723be ant_sel=2"  >  /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf
exit

Reboot.

Whenever Update Manager installs a later kernel version, also known as linux-image, after the requested restart, you must recompile:

cd rtlwifi_new-rock.new_btcoex
make clean
make
sudo make install

Reboot and your wireless should be working.

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Upgrade your Linux Firmware to 1.161 and Kernel version to 4.8.

To update the Linux Firmware , there are two ways :-

    1.  Via Ubuntu Software Center:
           Download this file -

         [\[http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.161_all.deb\]][1][1]
    Then open this Debian Package with Ubuntu Software Center and click    Install

2.Via Terminal : Open The Terminal ( ctrl+alt+T) Enter :-

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.161_all.deb

        De-package it :-

sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_1.161_all.deb

Now check your kernel version :-

Type:- uname -r
    Note if its generic or cloud or low latency

Upgrade your kernel to 4.8:

Go to Index of /~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8
For 64 bit system look under the amd64, for 32 bit one look under i386
For example, if its amd64 and your kernel is generic download these 3 files:-

     linux-headers-4.8.0-040800_4.8.0-040800.201610022031_all.deb
     linux-headers-4.8.0-040800-generic_4.8.0-040800.201610022031_amd64.deb
     linux-image-4.8.0-040800-generic_4.8.0-040800.201610022031_amd64.deb

Now Open these files one by one in Ubuntu Software Center and install all the three.
Re-boot
Check again for your kernel version Type:- uname -r
It’s 4.8 and your WiFi should be working !!!
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