WiFi problems

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Briefly describe your issue below:
I just installed parrot OS on a HP Laptop but it seems there is a problem with the realtek NIC for WiFi, i performed updates with ethernet connection with the hopes this will solve the problem but there is no interface to conect to a WiFi red.
I have seen ways to resolve the problem in debian jessie adding some debian repos but since parrot is not based on the stable releases i was worried to break my sistem.
I would really aprecciate the help and sorry if i am not expressing myself clearly, english is not my first language.

What version of Parrot are you running?
Parrot Security 3.11 64bits

What method did you use to install Parrot?
Debian standard

Configured to multiboot with other systems?
yes

If there are any similar issues or solutions, link to them below:

If there are any error messages or relevant logs, post them below:

2

you are right, adding repository would be very bad, can you post screenshot of your problem ? are you using nmcli or the network-manager applet ?

3

I am using the default from the installation.
I kept on looking for a solution and people asked for the results of the following commands:

$ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.225  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::da8b:24ca:4f12:2a72  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 48:ba:4e:ae:53:e6  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1343  bytes 466528 (455.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 777  bytes 84368 (82.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 14  bytes 714 (714.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 14  bytes 714 (714.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
----------------------------
$lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 02)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4e (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
01:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265 / M340/M360 / M440/M445] (rev 83)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device d723
---------------------------------
$lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
cpufreq_conservative    16384  0
cpufreq_powersave      16384  0
cpufreq_userspace      16384  0
bnep                   24576  2
uvcvideo              102400  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_v4l2         28672  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_core         45056  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
videodev              204800  3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
btusb                  53248  0
btrtl                  16384  1 btusb
media                  45056  2 uvcvideo,videodev
btbcm                  16384  1 btusb
wmi_bmof               16384  0
hp_wmi                 16384  0
btintel                16384  1 btusb
intel_rapl             24576  0
bluetooth             626688  12 btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,btusb
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    16384  0
intel_powerclamp       16384  0
amdkfd                151552  1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     57344  1
drbg                   28672  1
ansi_cprng             16384  0
coretemp               16384  0
snd_hda_codec_realtek   110592  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    86016  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_soc_skl            98304  0
snd_soc_skl_ipc        73728  1 snd_soc_skl
snd_hda_ext_core       28672  1 snd_soc_skl
snd_soc_sst_dsp        36864  1 snd_soc_skl_ipc
snd_soc_sst_ipc        16384  1 snd_soc_skl_ipc
ecdh_generic           24576  1 bluetooth
snd_soc_acpi           16384  1 snd_soc_skl
snd_soc_core          270336  1 snd_soc_skl
kvm_intel             229376  0
amdgpu               2736128  1
kvm                   700416  1 kvm_intel
snd_compress           24576  1 snd_soc_core
snd_hda_intel          45056  3
snd_hda_codec         151552  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_core           94208  7 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_soc_skl,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
chash                  16384  1 amdgpu
snd_hwdep              16384  1 snd_hda_codec
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm
intel_cstate           16384  0
ttm                   118784  1 amdgpu
wl                   6459392  0
mfd_core               16384  1 amdgpu
intel_uncore          131072  0
wmi                    28672  2 wmi_bmof,hp_wmi
snd_pcm               118784  7 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_core,snd_soc_skl,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_soc_core
snd_timer              36864  1 snd_pcm
i915                 1634304  3
intel_rapl_perf        16384  0
kxcjk_1013             24576  0
joydev                 24576  0
pcspkr                 16384  0
int3400_thermal        16384  0
acpi_thermal_rel       16384  1 int3400_thermal
cfg80211              716800  1 wl
evdev                  28672  16
serio_raw              16384  0
rfkill                 28672  6 bluetooth,hp_wmi,cfg80211
intel_vbtn             16384  0
sparse_keymap          16384  2 intel_vbtn,hp_wmi
industrialio_triggered_buffer    16384  1 kxcjk_1013
iTCO_wdt               16384  0
iTCO_vendor_support    16384  1 iTCO_wdt
battery                20480  0
sg                     36864  0
mei_me                 45056  0
snd                    94208  16 snd_compress,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
soundcore              16384  1 snd
acpi_pad               24576  0
ac                     16384  0
kfifo_buf              16384  1 industrialio_triggered_buffer
industrialio           81920  3 kxcjk_1013,industrialio_triggered_buffer,kfifo_buf
hp_wireless            16384  0
video                  45056  1 i915
shpchp                 40960  0
button                 16384  1 i915
processor_thermal_device    16384  0
int340x_thermal_zone    16384  1 processor_thermal_device
drm_kms_helper        188416  2 amdgpu,i915
mei                   106496  1 mei_me
intel_soc_dts_iosf     16384  1 processor_thermal_device
intel_pch_thermal      16384  0
drm                   458752  7 amdgpu,i915,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 amdgpu,i915
binfmt_misc            20480  1
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               40960  1 ip_tables
autofs4                49152  2
btrfs                1343488  0
xor                    24576  1 btrfs
zstd_decompress        94208  1 btrfs
zstd_compress         188416  1 btrfs
xxhash                 16384  2 zstd_compress,zstd_decompress
raid6_pq              122880  1 btrfs
ext4                  716800  1
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4
mbcache                16384  1 ext4
jbd2                  118784  1 ext4
crc32c_generic         16384  0
fscrypto               32768  1 ext4
ecb                    16384  0
nls_ascii              16384  0
hid_generic            16384  0
usbhid                 57344  0
hid                   131072  2 hid_generic,usbhid
sd_mod                 53248  3
crct10dif_pclmul       16384  0
crc32_pclmul           16384  0
crc32c_intel           24576  3
ghash_clmulni_intel    16384  0
pcbc                   16384  0
aesni_intel           188416  0
aes_x86_64             20480  1 aesni_intel
crypto_simd            16384  1 aesni_intel
glue_helper            16384  1 aesni_intel
cryptd                 28672  3 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel
psmouse               167936  0
ahci                   40960  2
i2c_i801               28672  0
libahci                40960  1 ahci
xhci_pci               16384  0
libata                274432  2 ahci,libahci
xhci_hcd              262144  1 xhci_pci
r8169                  94208  0
mii                    16384  1 r8169
scsi_mod              253952  3 sd_mod,libata,sg
usbcore               290816  5 uvcvideo,usbhid,xhci_pci,btusb,xhci_hcd
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore
fan                    16384  0
thermal                20480  0

From windows i found my wifi nic
realtek rtl8723de 802.11b/g/n pcie.
Hope the information help to solve my problem.

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can you check if the package for rtl is installed ? apt search firmware-realtek

your ifconfig shows only lo: but you said you used ethernet to download packages, so where is eth0 ? your wlan0 is not showing up either so its not even up

try sudo ip link set wlan0 up and see if its detected afterward in network manager

5

why u buy that thing? buy a propper adapter for real man with balls - on rt3070 or at least ar9271

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Thanks for your quick responses. Here are the results:
$apt search firmware-realtek
Sorting… Done
Full Text Search… Done
firmware-realtek/stable,now 20170823-1 all [installed]
Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters

$sudo ip link set wlan0
Cannot find device “wlan0”

The eth0 does exist
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.225 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::da8b:24ca:4f12:2a72 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether 48:ba:4e:ae:53:e6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2737 bytes 382424 (373.4 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 820 bytes 103576 (101.1 KiB)
TX errors 4 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Any other ideas? From what i can tell i have the drivers.

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I kept on digging and i think i found something. I used the command sudo lshw -C network (if someone could explain what it actually means it would be great :)) and it showed info about the
ethernet interface and something more:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:a2000000-a200ffff
From what i understand the unclaimed part means there isnt a driver or module associated with the wifi card. How can i resolve that problem?

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using man lshw will give you an offline manual about the tool, it works for most tools installed from debian repository, lshw is to list hardware. ‘-C’ is for the class

did you try this ? https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1816292