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Bug#769633: firmware-iwlwifi: Please add iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode for kernel 3.10+



On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 09:50 -0800, Michael Gretes wrote:
> Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> Version: 0.36+wheezy.1
> Followup-For: Bug #769633
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> To get Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 wireless network adapter to
> work, kernel 3.10+ is required (according to
> http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm).
> However, with kernel 3.16 (latest currently available in
> wheezy-backports) and firmware-iwlwifi, /lib/firmware/ does not
> contain iwlwifi-7260-x.ucode -- as a workaround, I needed to download
> the driver manually from
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz (linked to by http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm) and extract iwlwifi-7260.8.ucode to /lib/firmware.  This is fine as a workaround, but I feel this is beyond a typical novice user.

This is not related to Josh's bug report.

The firmware package you need is available in the wheezy-backports
suite, the same place you got the kernel package...

Ben.

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