Related Questions
I will prelude this question with the links to the other questions:
1.) Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a) ( I tried this but unfortunately no luck. They never had a wireless card show up.)
2.) Intel wireless 8260 - unclaimed network ( Similar issue but again does not work) Both of these posts are older before Intel released the drivers for this wifi card.
My Question
I have three Intel wifi cards plugged into my computer via PCIe. However, between boots they only create wireless interfaces for the cards randomly. Sometimes 1 card shows up... Sometimes all 3 cards show up.
If I run lspci. I see
07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
0c:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation Device f1a5 (rev 03)
0d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
If I run ifconfig I see
enp0s31f6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:88:88:88:87:88
inet addr:192.168.241.224 Bcast:192.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::c18e:2bc3:5517:78e6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:271252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1896 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:31020563 (31.0 MB) TX bytes:468963 (468.9 KB)
Interrupt:16 Memory:b1700000-b1720000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:15605 (15.6 KB) TX bytes:15605 (15.6 KB)
wlp7s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a4:34:d9:ee:3b:99
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
So I am trying to figure out where the other two wifi cards went. Following some other posts I tried running lshw -C network.
The output is as follows.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless 8260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: wlp7s0
version: 3a
serial: a4:34:d9:ee:3b:99
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.4.0-62-generic firmware=16.242414.0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:339 memory:b1500000-b1501fff
*-network
description: Network controller
product: Wireless 8260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
version: 3a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=iwlwifi latency=0
resources: irq:340 memory:b1400000-b1401fff
*-network
description: Network controller
product: Wireless 8260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0d:00.0
version: 3a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=iwlwifi latency=0
resources: irq:341 memory:b1200000-b1201fff
The interesting thing is that one of the wifi cards reports the correct capabilities to announce itself as a network device but the other two for some reason are not working. Does anyone have any ideas why this is not working??
Uname -a
Linux cirrus 4.4.0-62-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 18 14:10:15 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ls /lib/firmware | grep iwlwifi
iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode
