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You're very welcome.

 

If the wifi card shows up under the network adapters device manager category, and it reports working properly, and you can't turn it on by pressing the F12 key, then it is time to move on to W10.

 

You can see this related discussion regarding all we tried to get the 3168 AC card to work on W7.   We got nowhere...

 

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Wireless-and-Networking/Function-Key-not-working-how-to-turn-...

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I've just got my  rtl8732de to work with W7x64, but you nees to do the pin mod on the card.

 

Mask off pins 54 and 56 ( turn the card upside down and mask off the two pins on the left side of the connector( looking at the rear end of the card you will see two notches - 3 pins on the first, 2 pins on the second and 7 pins on the last big notch. You need to mask the last two pins to get the card working)).

 

It took me two days, but the job is done. 🙂

 

Hope the info helps others.

 

Cheers

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Hi:

 

Glad that mod worked for you.   It was posted at this link a month ago...

 

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Wireless-and-Networking/wireless-button-radio-driver/m-p/6821...

 

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Rtl8723DE and RTL8723BE are different - different pinout 😉

 

Cheers

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Thank you! I got it! Wonderful!!!

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Thx a lot. It's amazing. And it works!!!

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Can you please send pictures of the musking. I've been trying to do this for two days. Sorry for coming soooooo late.

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All you need is the small screwdriver and plastic card to open laptop and the sharp blade to cut off 

pin 56 at wireless card (WLAN disable / Active low) - the last one in row

The same is about the pin 54 (BT disable / Active low)

Just my 5 cents for M$

RTL8723DE.jpg

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Thanks man. You've been great help.

 

Worked 👌👌👌

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