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I have an HP Pavillion laptop and recently I've shifted to Ubuntu 16.04 from Windows 10. I have a realtek rtl8723be wifi card. I can see the Wifi networks but cannot connect to them. On trying to connect ubuntu constantly prompts me to enter the wifi password. I did some research and followed this answer to fix this but the problem persists.

What can I do to solve the problem?

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First of all remove the settings you made.

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf

If you do not have this file, nothing is wrong.

Then install a good driver

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms

Reboot and enjoy

If you still have problems, you may need to add an option:

echo "options rtl8723be ant_sel=2"  | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf

then reboot again.

If you do not have any internet connection, you can download the package using another computer, a phone, etc.

The package is HERE

You will also need DKMS installed. You can find the DKMS package for Ubuntu 16.04 HERE

Copy these two files to the Ubuntu Home folder (~/) and run in terminal

sudo dpkg -i dkms*.deb rtlwifi*.deb

Then reboot.

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