Flaky WiFi

[Guest NGIB]

On my newest more powerful laptop, I have a lot of problems with WiFi stability especially using any Buntu 14.04 based distro. It will lose connectivity often every few minutes and sometimes it comes back on it's own quickly and sometimes it doesn't. The WiFi is 100% reliable when using MX-14 (which is based on Debian stable). Here's the hardware specs (from inxi -F while running MX-14):

 

System: Host: btn Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit)

Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2 Distro: MX-14 Symbiosis 24 March 2014

Machine: System: Compal product: PBL21 v: 1.71

Mobo: Compal model: PBL21 Bios: INSYDE v: 1.71 date: 04/19/2011

CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB

Clock Speeds: 1: 1890 MHz 2: 997 MHz 3: 1203 MHz 4: 1334 MHz

5: 1304 MHz 6: 799 MHz 7: 2599 MHz 8: 1089 MHz

Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 540M]

Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 driver: nvidia

Resolution: 1920x1080 at 60.0hz

GLX Renderer: GeForce GT 540M/PCIe/SSE2

GLX Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.82

Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio Controller

driver: snd_hda_intel

Card-2 Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller

driver: snd_hda_intel

Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae

Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller

driver: r8169

IF: eth1 state: down mac: b8:70:f4:a0:44:83

Card-2: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter

driver: rtl8192ce

IF: wlan1 state: up mac: e0:b9:a5:b2:c6:80

Drives: HDD Total Size: 266.1GB (0.4% used)

ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9250410AS size: 250.1GB

USB ID-2: /dev/sdb model: Cruzer_Glide size: 16.0GB

Partition: ID-1: / size: 226G used: 4.4G (3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1

ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.08GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 51C

Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A

Info: Processes: 187 Uptime: 18 min Memory: 524.1/8092.1MB

Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.18

 

I suspect it's a driver issue with the Buntu based distros but I wonder if any of y'all have whipped this problem...

 

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