Hi all,
I just bought a second hand Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 and installed a fresh copy of Debian 8 (w/ Gnome UI). The ethernet interface works out of the box, but wifi doesn't.
I read the instructions on
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi, but am stuck there.
I have the wireless-tools package installed.
At this point I am confused what to do. The page lists many PCI devices, USB devices and PCMCIA devices, but I have a built in WiFi chip which (accoording to lspci -v) is an Intel Wireless-N 7260 :
Quote:
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless-N 7260
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at f1c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
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The "access denied" at the end doesn't really sound good, so my guess is that I'm missing the appropriate firmware. Also "iwconfig" doesn't list any wireless interfaces; just lo and eth1.
I found matching firmware on the intel website (
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/ww...000005511.html) but I have no clue what to do with the tgz file. The intel website says to extract it to /lib/firmware, but that directory does not exist in my debian 8 installation.
At this point I'm not able to find anything on Google that can help me further, so any pointers in the right direction are more than welcome.
Best regards,
Marvelade