You are right, it was working all along, I just had another config error which meant that it did not seem to be working. I followed by usual problem solving which is to look for the first error message. Should have looked further. thanks for your help David On Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:58:56 BST Luca Coelho wrote: > On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 10:03 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > I have a laptop which reports the wifi adapter to be an 8265/8275 rev 78 > > and the driver complains that it can not find:- > > > > iwlwifi-8265-23.ucode > > iwlwifi-8265-24.ucode > > iwlwifi-8265-25.ucode > > iwlwifi-8265-26.ucode > > iwlwifi-8265-27.ucode > > iwlwifi-8265-28.ucode > > > > and they not appear to be in the kernel.org github. Where do I find > > them and could they be added to github? > > Does your wifi card work? The driver tries to find one of the supported > versions, starting from highest and going down to the lowest. It seems > that you have -22.ucode and, if that's the case, everything should be > fine and you can ignore these messages. > > It is an old known problem that there is no way to try to load a > firmware without getting an error message. People are working on > solving this, but until then, just ignore this messages and everything > should be fine. :) > > -- > Cheers, > Luca.