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[James Cameron <1707185@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave, Lwfinger is Larry Finger, the maintainer of the rtl8821ae driver
already in Ubuntu 16.04.  When you used his GitHub driver, you had
undone a change by Realtek, and that's why it worked.  The Realtek
change was 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues") and caused the
connection loss.

Larry Finger and I have worked on the connection loss in the past few
weeks.  Linux kernel v4.14 when it is released should contain a fix
b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem").  But
there's nothing wrong with continuing with the GitHub driver if it is
working fine for you.

Martin, package linux-firmware-1.168 and earlier versions have the
rtl8821ae firmware for the wireless network adapter.  So I don't think
this bug should "affects" linux-firmware or linux-firmware-nonfree.

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Title:
  I wish “Firmware Package” had the RTL8821AE wireless network adaptor
  driver.

Status in ubuntu-mate:
  Invalid
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux-firmware-nonfree package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My Wife’s laptop is an Asus X555L, it has a RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe
  Wireless Network Adapter. When I first installed Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 for
  her, the Wireless Network adaptor driver was part of the Kernel. Her
  wireless connection reliability was terrible, continually dropping
  connection.   It also connects sometimes at really low data rate,
  sometimes as low as 6bits/s (my laptop always connects at min
  150Mb/s). She has been Ethernet cabled to my LAN Switch for the last 6
  months until I Googled for a driver and found a post pointing to a
  driver by Lwfinger on github. See:

  http://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git

  Please can the Mate “Firmware Package” include a driver for RTL8821AE
  wireless network adaptor. This would help all users with an Asus x555
  series Laptops.

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