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[Eric Monson <ericjmonson@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, this wireless driver works better than it did a year ago when this
bug was initially submitted. At that time, I was seeing the same results
as Greg reported. At this point, the wireless driver will work for a few
minutes with 0 packet loss, then complete stop sending any packets.

For me, this is the integrated WIFI on my laptop. If I disable then re-
enable the WIFI on the laptop (using the special WIFI button above F12),
it will being working again for another few minutes.

Let me know what other information I can provide to help with this bug.

Eric

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Title:
  rtl8188ee wireless driver unusable: 25-30% packet loss. 13.10 Saucy

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm seeing a consistent packet loss problem with the rtl8188ee Realtek
  wireless driver.  Long sequences of pings to the access point IP show
  25-30% packet loss.  Downloads get 'stuck', pages don't load, it's
  generally unusable.

  I've tried the following kernels:

  /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-12-generic  /boot/initrd.img-3.12.3-031203-generic
  /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-14-generic  /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-031300rc3-generic

  all with the same result.  Packet capture shows lots of dup ACKs, some
  retransmits.

  I suspected 802.11n might be the culprit, but I've disabled it at the
  AP, and the driver seems to respect that judging by these log lines:

  Dec  7 21:50:52 congo kernel: [13812.218008] rtl8188ee 0000:01:00.0 wlan0: disabling HT as WMM/QoS is not supported by the 
  AP
  Dec  7 21:50:52 congo kernel: [13812.218011] rtl8188ee 0000:01:00.0 wlan0: disabling VHT as WMM/QoS is not supported by the
   AP

  Other than those lines there isn't anything noteworthy in syslog.

  Very interested in getting this fixed, please let me know how I can
  help debug.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 13.10
  Release:	13.10

  $ uname -a
  Linux congo 3.13.0-031300rc3-generic #201312061335 SMP Fri Dec 6 18:37:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  $ sudo lshw -C network
    *-network               
         description: Wireless interface
         product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
         vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
         physical id: 0
         bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
         logical name: wlan0
         version: 01
         serial: 34:23:87:0d:23:85
         width: 64 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
         configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=3.13.0-031300rc3-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.68 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
         resources: irq:18 ioport:5000(size=256) memory:b2600000-b2603fff
    *-network
         description: Ethernet interface
         product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
         vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
         physical id: 0
         bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
         logical name: eth0
         version: 0c
         serial: 9c:b6:54:c1:7d:36
         size: 10Mbit/s
         capacity: 1Gbit/s
         width: 64 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
         configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
         resources: irq:43 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b2500000-b2500fff memory:b2400000-b2403fff

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