[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1707185] Re: I wish “Firmware Package” had the RTL8821AE wireless network adaptor driver.

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.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1707185] Re: I wish “Firmware Package” had the RTL8821AE wireless network adaptor driver.

** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux-firmware-nonfree (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu-mate Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu) Importance: