The upstream version works. Can I safely continue using it or will
things break when the Ubuntu version gets updated?
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Status: Incomplete => Fix Committed
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Fix committed seems the nearest to "fixed upstream".
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Title:
rtl8821ae has no connectivity in 5GHz networks
Status in linux
Mikaela Suomalainen, to advise, this is not Fix Committed as defined in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status.
Regarding using the upstream version, given it's not provided by Ubuntu,
one should expect no support from Ubuntu if things break.
Despite this, given that the upstream version addresses
Mikaela Suomalainen, to advise, testing the latest upstream driver
version in itself would never make any report invalid.
Despite this, in order to upstream this issue, it would need to be tested on
the latest upstream version. Hence, if a system break is a concern, then one
would want to
Mikaela Suomalainen, thank you for reporting this and helping make
Ubuntu better.
As per https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/X550JX/HelpDesk_Download/ an
update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (209). If
you update to this following
There is no new version of BIOS as
1. WInFlash which is tool to update BIOS on ASUS laptops says that it is unable
to find a new BIOS version.
2. WinFlash tells me that BIOSes which I try to flash are older than the
currently flashed version and refuses to do anything.
However as the last time
It seems you were right, for some reason the newer BIOS was only
available from ASUS USA site and not in Finland and the WinFlash was
unable to download it. However now it's updated and this bug still
exists.
# sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
X550JX.209
** Tags removed: bios-outdated-209
** Tags added: latest-bios-209
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rtl8821ae has no connectivity in 5GHz networks
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Mikaela Suomalainen, to clarify, have you tested the latest upstream
driver version from
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/tree/master/rtl8821ae ?
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Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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I have only used the version packaged in Xenial and I have no idea how I
would go installig drivers outside of repositories.
I however know that installing drivers outside of repositories is good
way to break system and make bug reports invalid.
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Importance: Undecided => High
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