NICE, now at version F.18 Rev A! Worked great, except at first the HP program didn't like my SanDIsk Extreme USB drive, even after a format, but with the SanDisk Ultra the flash drive was recognized.Now if I can only get the wireless to work in Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon. When I had Linux Mint on a USB drive I was able to get it working with lwfingers' fix for the wrong antenna being selected. However, he made some changes to his code and repository and now on 18.2 and 18.3 (Cinnamon or MATE), it destroys all wireless capability. I am forced ot use a USB wireless dongle, so better than nothing.
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I was able to fix the missing antenna issue causing a low wifi signal on the HP Stream 11 with Linux Mint 18.3 after finding a post on a Linux forum. It turns out that Lwfinger's Realtek fix is no longer necessary with Linux Mint 18.3 because the antenna select option is included in the latest kernel. Hi @pjc123, I think I had heard about the missing antenna issue but I always just ran the out of the box Linux Mint with no Wifi modifications added, I never had a problem that I know of.
Maybe I have always been close enough to my router, I'm not sure, I guess I have had the connection drop now and then but nothing persistent.Mine is the original Stream 11 from November 2014 and does have the rtl8723be, it only supports 2.4 GHz Wifi. I ran Mint 17.3 for two years and recently wiped it clean and did a fresh install of 18.3 and both seem okay as far as I know. Is there a specific behavior I should look for to see if I need this fix? Kyleb wrote: 'Is there a specific behavior I should look for to see if I need this fix?' I bought my HP Stream in the December of 2015.PART # = 11-r010nrPRODUCT # = N5X86UA#ABAI forget what version of Linux I had, but I needed to be on top of the router to get a signal, and was forced to apply lwfinger's fix with a USB to Ethernet adapter.With Linux Mint 18.3 I noticed I could be a room away and still get a connection most of the time, so things got a little better. However, after selecting the proper antenna port my signal doubled and I went from displaying a couple wifi access points around me to an order of magnitude more. It doesn't hurt to try and see if you get an improvement, as you can always revert to the previous setting.
Has anyone else had problems booting in to WinPE v.2 environment with a HP DC7800 desktop computer?I have to retry the booting almost five times until it boots in to the system. After that there is no problems. I also had problems with the nic drivers, but I updated the newest INTEL 1000 PRO Vist.
You can switch back and forth between ant=1 and ant=2 and ant=0. You can then use the iwconfig command to look at the signal dBm level with each antenna option to see what works best. You can also use a terminal based wifi graphical signal strength program called wavemon, and recently I discovered a really nice gui version called LinSSID. The improvement in reception will also actually immediately become obvious by looking at the wifi icon in the taskbar. As far as detecting if you physically have only one antenna, you would have to disassemble the laptop, as no software program that I now of would report that. Due to the age of your laptop, I suspect you only have a single antenna.
I see where newer Streams use a different chipset, and I also don't know if they cheapened down and added the other antenna or not.
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Code: gksu /path/to/unetbootin-linux-3725. In Unetbootin, choose 'Disk image' and - this is important - select 'Floppy' from the drop-down list next to it.6. Now click on '.' And navigate to the FreeDOS image you extracted at Step 1.7. Choose 'USB Drive' next to 'Type', and choose your flash drive/memory card from the drop-down list next to 'Drive'.8. The process will take a few seconds.9. When done, close Unetbootin.10.
Now copy the BIOS update utility to your flash drive/memory card. Trust me, just copy it as you would any other file.11. Unmount the flash drive/memory card.C. Booting and Updating:1. Restart your computer.2. Enter BIOS, and change the relevant options to boot from the flash drive/memory card. Save the changes and reboot the computer.3.
A GRUB-like menu should appear with only one option (i.e. Simply press Enter.4. A very brief notification (only 2 seconds) that says 'Press F8 to trace or F5 to skip CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT' will appear. In my case, I had to either press F5 or answer No to all succeeding questions - otherwise it wouldn't boot.5. Now navigate - in DOS-style, of course - to your flash drive/memory card. In my case, it was C: then run the BIOS update utility.Hope that helps and good luck.Note: I've only tested this method with a 512MB Kingston SD Card and a 1GB Transcend USB flash drive. It worked well with both medias.
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