I having problems with wifi. I find the firmware. It is .tgz but I don't know how to install it. My wifi card is Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 93)
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04
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What WiFi card do you have? Chances are there's an easier install method than compiling and installing from the source. – TheWanderer Dec 24 '15 at 15:43
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Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 93) – CatCoder Dec 24 '15 at 15:50
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That should work fine with Ubuntu. – TheWanderer Dec 24 '15 at 15:51
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No driver needed. – TheWanderer Dec 24 '15 at 15:51
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so what's the problem I disconnected from wifi after using for couple of minutes. Do you mean my wifi card is updated – CatCoder Dec 24 '15 at 15:53
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AFAIK that's some other problem. Try rebooting your router. – TheWanderer Dec 24 '15 at 15:57
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I can't access router. – CatCoder Dec 24 '15 at 16:15
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Unplug the router and plug it back in. – TheWanderer Dec 24 '15 at 16:18
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- in general you do not need to install software for your wifi. 2. impossible to answer this without context. We need make and model of wifi. We need a link to the download. edit: Inter wireless works out of the box. Please reconsider this topic and focus on the PROBLEM not on what you believe is an answer to a problem
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I just need the answer of this. I asked couple of times about this problem in different forums but no one answered that question. So I decided find the solution piece by piece – CatCoder Dec 24 '15 at 17:51
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2Where did you find the firmware, and what is the result of this script? – Wilf Dec 25 '15 at 19:29
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This link: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi includes information regarding the download and installation for Intel HW.
According to that link, installation is simple and done by: cp iwlwifi-*.ucode /lib/firmware.
I recommend you read it first.
Generally speaking, for a tarball included .tgz file, which is essentially an archive (like RAR, ZIP etc), you may use the following:
- Using GUI go to the folder you've downloaded it in, and right click your mouse to select 'extract here'.
- Then using CLI (the terminal), go to the directory in which it was
extracted (
cd [directory]) and input./configure,makeandmake install- in that order.
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@steeldriver you are right. My advice was based on personal experience with Intel, nothing more. Let me try and fix this. – orangesomethingorange Dec 24 '15 at 16:23