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Tried

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms linux-firmware

But giving 

whiplash@whiplash-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms    
Reading package lists... Done    
Building dependency tree           
Reading state information... Done    
E: Unable to locate package rtlwifi-new-dkms

My wireless card details:

*-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0
       version: 00
       serial: a8:a7:95:23:cb:25
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8723be driverversion=4.8.0-27-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:a1100000-a1103fff
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I maintain the hanipouspilot PPA. That is why I can give the best answer ;-)

I did not upload an rtlwifi-new-dkms package for Yakkety 16.10.

You can try to download the deb for Xenial, but it is unlikely that it will build for the 4.8 kernel. I did not test it.

The reason is simple. I do not use this release and I can't test the module.

You can try to use a driver from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new

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