[elrepo] RTL8723be - driver

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Konrad Wawryn <konrad.wawryn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> this is my first post, so I would like to address warm welcome to everyone.
>
> Since two weeks I have new laptop with Wireless Rtl8723be. Unfortunately it
> doesnt work as expected. I tried already to compile rtl drivers but it seems
> that they are not stable on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian.
>
> I decided to install Centos/Red Hat. Could You please tell me which kernel
> supporting this chipset ? I heard that 3.15 and higher. Could You please
> suggest me which kernel I need to deploy to be able to use CentOS Desktop
> with Wifi ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for Your support
>
> Konrad

The rtl8723be driver is available in the current kernel-ml (3.16.2-1.el7.elrepo

or 3.16.2-1.el6.elrepo). So, try installing it and see if that works.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

Akemi