On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 6:41 AM Chris <powersurge69@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just purchased a Dell Latitude 3340 on eBay and I tried installing > Debian 11 on it but I am unable to get the wireless network to enable. > The wireless was working perfectly in Windows 10. According to lshw the > laptop uses a Wireless 7260. I first tried running 'apt install > firmware-iwlwifi', but Network Manager just says that the wireless > network is unavailable. I then tried downloading > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode > and copying it into the /lib/firmware folder, but that didn't work > either. Is there anything else that I can try? Thank you in advance for > your assistance. > What says dmesg - typed in a terminal? Here on my Debian/unstable AMD64: root# dmesg | egrep -i 'iwl|ucode|firmware' [ 54.675939] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode [ 54.676668] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 6000g2b-6.ucode op_mode iwldvm ... [ 58.417970] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6230 AGN, REV=0xB0 You need to install firmware-iwlwifi Debian package. # dpkg -L firmware-iwlwifi | grep iwlwifi-72 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265-17.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-22.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-29.ucode Cannot say if the firmware-iwlwifi package ships the latest firmware you need on Debian-11 for your wifi-card. Here I have: # dpkg -l | grep firmware-iwlwifi | awk '/^(ii|hi|rc)/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3}' | column -t ii firmware-iwlwifi 20221214-3 Hope that helps. -Sedat-
