16.04 LTS wifi connection lost randomly every 5 minutes [duplicate]
First I had this issue described here 16.04 LTS wifi connection issues but nobody was able to provide a valid answer.
Recently this wifi connection issue gets even worse. I would lose wifi connection randomly about every 5 minutes on my computer(Dell XPS 8900 with skylake i7-6700 CPU and Samsung 950PRO SSD). The wifi icon would remain connected state while connection is lost. It looks like it would be reconnected automatically after a while or I will have to reconnect manually.
Can somebody plz tell me what is going on here? Is it something wrong with my computer or just another bug with this version?
Finally, I was able to fix the issue.
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Get details of your PCI wireless card by running the following
sudo lshw -class network
Get your card model info according to the product line of the wireless interface. For instance, as you can see in the question description it says product:
RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
so the model of my card isRTL8723BE
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Open or create
/etc/pm/config.d/config
and addSUSPEND_MODULES="rtl8723be"
(replace rtl8723be with your own model number) Then runecho "options rtl8723be fwlps=N" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf
and reboot.
Now your system should be able to reconnect automatically after sleep, and wifi connection never got lost once for me after doing this.