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I have an HP 455 Probook with AMD10-7300 processor and Realtek 8723be wireless card. I would like to install PC-BSD. Is there any hope of wireless working? I wish there was a live disk I could use to test before installing.

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I had a real hard time with my wireless card on a HP Probook 450 G2 with a rtl8723be chipset. I had to install the drivers from here: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new

From all of the research I did when I had issues I found that I had to:

  • update kernel to at least 3.16
  • clone the git repo
  • remove the loaded kernel module
  • compile the module from the git repo
  • disable power management in the module config
  • load the module

Since I did those things all of my own wifi issues have gone.

I'm not using PC-BSD. I am using Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon Edition.

You can find most of the info I found in this stackexchange answer: rtl8723be Realtek Wifi-Card driver not working on Ubuntu 14.04

edit: for Linux Mint users I have summarised the steps here: http://www.thesysadmiral.co.uk/2015/11/linux-mint-on-hp-probook-450-g2-or.html

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