On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:52:52PM +0800, corvuscorax wrote: > Hello! I have trouble in installing driver of my wifi card.. > (My computer is "DELL Inpiron 14 5000 Series", the Os is debian 3.16.2. The wifi card should be Intel AC 3160..I think) > > I can't see my wifi card by using "lspci ", > it just shows "02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 08b3 (rev 83)" > > And "iwconfig" shows: > eth0 no wireless extensions. > lo no wireless extensions. > > I download the driver "iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode", and "cp" it into /lib/firmware. However, I think it doesn't work.... > I have checked the "hotplug", it was chosen in kernel-config. What's more , my USB can be recognized easily..... > > Any suggestion? You could 'apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi' if you have non-free enabled in sources.list. That has always worked for me. I've never tried the manual firmware download like you did, so I'm not sure if you've done something wrong there or not. -Rob
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