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I've been scouring the internet and have viewed a couple different posts on this site and have done everything and anything I can to get this network adapter to work. When I click on the wireless, it says "no network devices detected". I ran the lsusb command and the two that m going to assume are the network adapter come back with:

bus 001 device 004: ID 0bda:b001 realtek semiconductor corp.
bus 001 device 005: ID 0bda:0177 realtek semiconductor corp.

There is absolutely no way i can plug this in via cat-5 line since there is no port on this netbook in trying to install ubuntu onto.

When I run lspci | grep -i wireless, it just goes down one line and I receive nothing else there.

nm-tool returns: State: disconnected

nmcli nm
RUNNING         STATE           WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN      
running         disconnected    enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled
sudo rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
iwconfig
lo    no wireless extensions.

lspci -v (there are quite a few things here but the Realtek network controller says this):

01:00.0 network controller: realtek semiconductor co., ltd device b723
subsystem: hewlett-packard company device 2231
flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, irq 106
i/o ports at 1000 {size=256}
memory at 90400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) {size=16k}
capabilities: <access denied>
kernel driver in use: rtl8723be
kernel modules: rtl8723be

I don't know what other information you would need but as I said I can't hook it up via an ethernet cable since there is no port on the netbook for one. I need to be able to get the files i need and put them onto an sd card and transfer them to the netbook to install them that way.

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  • also sorry for my lack of structure... i tried hitting return/enter to go down a line but it didnt work the way i was expecting it to... it was all neat and pretty looking til i looked at the bottom and posted :( i appologize Jun 24, 2016 at 2:07
  • ty for the edit Jun 24, 2016 at 2:14

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Updating the driver fixed this issue for me.

Go to

https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/

And download the file to your sd card. Transfer file to whatever directory you like.

cd (directory you chose to copy to)

Then

cd rtlwifi_new

Then run

make

Then

sudo make install

Lastly reboot your computer, the issue should be resolved

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  • ok i downloaded that entire thing... i put the rtl8723be folder onto my desktop and cd /home/bob/Desktop i do the next thing you say "make" it says no targets specified and no makefile found. stop. so i typed make rtl8723be and it came back with make: warning: file 'rtl8723be' has modification time 7.7e+07 s in the future Jun 24, 2016 at 2:43
  • make: nothing to be done with rtl8723be Jun 24, 2016 at 2:44
  • make: warning: clock skew detected. your build may be incomplete Jun 24, 2016 at 2:44
  • I forgot to add a cd. You should cd into /home/bob/Desktop/rtlwifi_new I will add the step to answer
    – ILOVEKODI
    Jun 24, 2016 at 2:46
  • If you renamed the Realtek folder you downloaded, you would cd into that, otherwise the path I gave you above should work
    – ILOVEKODI
    Jun 24, 2016 at 2:48

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