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HP ProBook 450 G2, 
RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter, Realtek Semiconductor, Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin,
Kubuntu 14.10, 
kernel 3.16.0-30-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 12 22:06:37 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. 

It drops connection from time to time - not very often. I can fix it
with:

   sudo rmmod rtl8723be
   sudo modprobe rtl8723be

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Title:
  Realtek Wifi card RTL8723BE drops connection with MSI enabled

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  As my testing result with ThinkPad E540 and other users' report[1],
  RTL8723BE drops connection with MSI enabled, need to backport
  329d6e299f92a591acb3a80f6d597a5f9dce7e6d "rtlwifi: rtl8723be: disable
  MSI interrupts mode"

  [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240940

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