Intel Wirless Dual band 3165 Configuration

Question

I tried following below link for installing wireless drivers, but still no joy

How can I install Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 drivers?

magesh@magesh-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~/Downloads/linux-4.4.1$ dmesg | grep iwl
[    9.579767] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3165-12.ucode failed with error -2
[    9.579781] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3165-11.ucode failed with error -2
[    9.579792] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3165-10.ucode failed with error -2
[    9.579794] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-3165-10.ucode' failed.
[    9.580322] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Unsupported splx structure
[    9.700855] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Driver unable to support your firmware API. Driver supports v12, firmware is v13.

All i understood from the link is, copying two driver files, Please advice how handle other firmware load.

Still Wireless is not working for me after restarting the system.

Rename 7265-12 to 3165-12, if that rmane works. The kernel does not support 13. — Pilot6, Feb 07 '16 at 20:14
What's the output of uname -r? Do you have the package linux-firmware installed? — David Foerster, Feb 07 '16 at 20:38
@DavidFoerster The problem is that there is no firmware for 3165 anywhere. The other answer offers to rename 7265. — Pilot6, Feb 07 '16 at 20:40
Thanks for kind response, the kernel version is 3.19.0-25-generic. And Download Linux-4.4.1, but dont know how to update it. — magesh jayaraman, Feb 07 '16 at 20:43
Downloaded file is available in following directory /home/magesh/Downloads/linux-4.4.1. — magesh jayaraman, Feb 07 '16 at 20:47
Since the linked question suggests the installation of a kernel version ≥4.1 and you're on Ubuntu 14.04, I suggest you upgrade your kernel to the backported kernel 4.2 of Wily: sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-wily and reboot. Does that help? — David Foerster, Feb 07 '16 at 20:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '16 at 20:48

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This will work on your current kernel

wget https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-7265-ucode-25.17.12.0.tgz
tar zxvf iwlwifi-7265-ucode-25.17.12.0.tgz
cd iwlwifi-7265-ucode-25.17.12.0
sudo cp iwlwifi-7265D-12.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3165-12.ucode

Reboot

answered Feb 07 '16 at 20:48

Jeremy31

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I was wrong with firmware api. this is the correct solution. – Pilot6 Feb 07 '16 at 20:50
Please accept the answer by clicking the check sign at the left. – Pilot6 Feb 07 '16 at 21:04

Intel Wirless Dual band 3165 Configuration

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