Wifi not working, pureos plasma

Software PureOS
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this shown when i used this command: lshw -C net
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0d:00.0
logical name: wlp13s0
version: 00
serial: aa:f9:22:43:f7:59
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8723be driverversion=5.10.0-33-amd64 firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:16 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:c3000000-c3003fff

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PureOS does not provide proprietary Wi-Fi drivers or firmware.

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so, then?
what should i do. because LAN works, only wifi has issues. but wifi is important.

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As I see it, you have two choices:

  • compromise the purity of your system by obtaining the needed WiFi blob(s) (and hope that you can get the WiFi working)
  • run a different distro i.e. not PureOS.

If nothing else, I would suggest a Live Boot of Ubuntu in order to confirm that the WiFi can work (or look it up on https://linux-hardware.org/).

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