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wifi router found but cannot connect

I have a fresh install of artix-runit on a lenovo laptop. When installing the OS, I was unable to connect to wifi using wpa_supplicant, although there was no error in configuration process.

I installed it using a LAN cable and after booting to the fresh artix linux and insitalling networkmanager, this is the result of lspci -v:
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02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
        Subsystem: Lenovo Z50-75
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at 90400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: rtl8723be
        Kernel modules: rtl8723be
and ip link:
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1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen
1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 28:d2:44:a8:3b:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ba:61:8c:88:d9:e6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 9c:ad:97:4e:9d:5b
and also nmcli device wifi command:
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IN-USE  BSSID              SSID            MODE   CHAN  RATE        SIGNAL  BARS  SECURITY
        10:FE:ED:B8:16:07  TP-LINK_B81607  Infra  11    135 Mbit/s  100     ▂▄▆█  WPA1 WPA2

but when I run nmcli device connect TP-LINK_B81607 I get this error:
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Error: Device 'TP-LINK_B81607' not found.
and I get the same error using BSSID. Also this is the result for rfkill list:
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0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
6: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

I was able to connect to the wifi using this laptop running windows. Can somebody help me with this?

Re: wifi router found but cannot connect

Reply #1 –
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nmcli device connect TP-LINK_B81607

You sure that's formatted right ?
After device I'd expect wlan0. Or a device at least
nmcli man page online uses 'dev' and 'con' not 'device' and 'connect'. Maybe both work ?

example from the man page
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nmcli dev wifi con "Cafe Hotspot 1" password caffeine name "My cafe"

So maybe not dev wlan0 just wifi ?
Either way I think your problem maybe 'device' in the command but not stating a device ?

Re: wifi router found but cannot connect

Reply #2 –
Well that's embarrassing.
Thank you. Problem solved.