Re: [Ilw] trouble with wireless AC 7260 in ubuntu 13.04

[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 04:49:27AM +0000, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, please note that mails in any other format than plaintext won't go through the filters to the mailing list. So please, hit the plain text button in gmail.
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> 
> > Hello supporters,
> 
> :) 
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> > I got your email addresses from here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
> > (Also copying my brother on this email.)
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> > I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a new machine. It has an Intel Dual Band AC 7260 wireless card. I would like to connect to a wireless network but don't know how.
> > I put iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode into /lib/firmware
> 
> I am not sure if Ubuntu 13.04 supports this new device already. I'd ask Seth Forshee (CCed).
> This device is supported starting from kernel 3.10 which AFAIK is not shipped with Ubuntu 13.04. They may very well have added a backport based driver.

Ubuntu 13.04 is using a 3.8 kernel. We'll be using 3.11 in the 13.10
release, which is due out this month. If you don't want to install a
newer kernel yourself you can either update to the 13.10 beta [1] or use
the backports project to get drivers from later kernels [2].

Seth

[1] http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/09/27/ubuntu-13-10-saucy-salamander-final-beta-released/
[2] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org