I have tried pretty much all the solutions available, sadly I don't remember them all. But I know that I have tried lwfinger's solution as well as updating(and downgrading) my kernel.
inxi -Fxz
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System: Host: Jenks-Laptop Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 455 G2 version: A3009CD10002
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2235 version: KBC Version 66.20
Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: M75 Ver. 01.30 date: 03/10/2015
CPU: Quad core AMD A10-7300 Radeon R6 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 15171.6
Clock Speeds: 1: 1100.00 MHz 2: 1100.00 MHz 3: 1100.00 MHz 4: 1100.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri bus-ID: 00:01.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 1308 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8723be port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1015.8GB (0.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS541010A9 size: 1000.2GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: DataTraveler_2.0 size: 15.6GB
Partition: ID: / size: 910G used: 4.7G (1%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 7.46GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 45.4C mobo: 0.0C gpu: 45.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 185 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 463.8/6858.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
==> PCI ID = 10ec:b723
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:bf:9c:59:67:07
inet addr:192.168.1.18 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fd8c:34fd:8ad6:5500:e45a:ccf3:ca1e:fbf6/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fd8c:34fd:8ad6:5500:d2bf:9cff:fe59:6707/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::d2bf:9cff:fe59:6707/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19031 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1165860 (1.1 MB) TX bytes:24569 (24.5 KB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11292 (11.2 KB) TX bytes:11292 (11.2 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:29:af:61:be:63
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 216.58.210.14
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01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2235]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:b723]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2231]
Kernel driver in use: rtl8723be
SOLUTION:
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echo "options rtl8723be msi=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf
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sudo modprobe -r rtl8723be
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sudo modprobe rtl8723be