Hi. I am using a Debian Unofficial non-free image in a Dell XPS 12 laptop.
(reference: Debian Unofficial).
For many years, this Intel network card is considered problematic in Linux, and I've seen tons of forum threads throughout the years.
The main problem that happens is an unstable wireless connection even when the wifi signal is strong, with constant disconnections for no apparent reason.
After messing with my partitions (increasing the Linux partition through Microsoft Windows Software) the connection became more unstable and faulty.
That's when I decided to try Intel's official network driver " iwlwifi-7260-ucode-25.30.14.0.tgz "
Intel 7260 Network Driver
The installation seemed to be pretty simple (README file instructions):
What I just noticed after typing the command
So, the network connection was very faulty and problematic, getting disconnected all the time and forcing me to restart the networking service all the time or reboot the PC, like:
So, I installed Intel Network Drivers and edited the file mentioned above as shown below:
After that, my wireless network began to function much better than before, but another problem emerged. The new problem is that (changing eth0 to wlan0) my Gnome's GUI Network Manager Front End (I believe that's the name) stopped recognizing the wifi card and stopped to show the wireless networks available. The very interesting and strange thing that happened here is that the Internet connection is working much better, I needed to restart the networking.service much less frequently than before, but the software that manages wireless connections in my GUI does not recognize either the network card nor the established wireless connection. It just shows an offline tray icon on the right lower corner of the screen. If I try to search for wireless networks in this window, that's no longer possible. It shows a window that has no wireless cards detected. I hope I made myself understood here. Sorry if my English is not that good. I'm trying to be as concise and detailed as possible, in order to allow you guys to understand the problem better and offer me a solution.
So, the first and main problem of this thread is:
How can I make my established wireless connection and my network card be detected and displayed in my Gnome's Network Manager window? That's the initial goal here.
What other information can I provide to help? What I have so far is:
I have posted this same problem in other three different Forums, but I was unable to make any progress.
I hope someone here can help me.
Thank you.
(reference: Debian Unofficial).
For many years, this Intel network card is considered problematic in Linux, and I've seen tons of forum threads throughout the years.
The main problem that happens is an unstable wireless connection even when the wifi signal is strong, with constant disconnections for no apparent reason.
After messing with my partitions (increasing the Linux partition through Microsoft Windows Software) the connection became more unstable and faulty.
That's when I decided to try Intel's official network driver " iwlwifi-7260-ucode-25.30.14.0.tgz "
Intel 7260 Network Driver
The installation seemed to be pretty simple (README file instructions):
So, I copied the *.ucode file iwlwifi-7260-14.ucode to /lib/firmware.
What I just noticed after typing the command
is that there are a huge number of files with that name, just varying the network card number (ranging from iwlwifi-1000* to iwlwifi-9260*). I don't know if that's normal. Anyway, let's continue.
So, the network connection was very faulty and problematic, getting disconnected all the time and forcing me to restart the networking service all the time or reboot the PC, like:
While looking for problems, I found out that the /etc/network/interfaces.d/setup was set to ETH0 instead of WLAN0 and that's was causing some conflicts (I never edited this file, in this system, before).
So, I installed Intel Network Drivers and edited the file mentioned above as shown below:
Why did I edit the setup file? My first choice was to edit /etc/network/interfaces, but that file contained nothing but a reference to /etc/network/interfaces.d
After that, my wireless network began to function much better than before, but another problem emerged. The new problem is that (changing eth0 to wlan0) my Gnome's GUI Network Manager Front End (I believe that's the name) stopped recognizing the wifi card and stopped to show the wireless networks available. The very interesting and strange thing that happened here is that the Internet connection is working much better, I needed to restart the networking.service much less frequently than before, but the software that manages wireless connections in my GUI does not recognize either the network card nor the established wireless connection. It just shows an offline tray icon on the right lower corner of the screen. If I try to search for wireless networks in this window, that's no longer possible. It shows a window that has no wireless cards detected. I hope I made myself understood here. Sorry if my English is not that good. I'm trying to be as concise and detailed as possible, in order to allow you guys to understand the problem better and offer me a solution.
So, the first and main problem of this thread is:
How can I make my established wireless connection and my network card be detected and displayed in my Gnome's Network Manager window? That's the initial goal here.
What other information can I provide to help? What I have so far is:
As you can see from the above image, the connection is shown as ACTIVE. I can browse the Internet perfectly, but the Gnome's Network Manager window is still showing that I'm not connected.
I have posted this same problem in other three different Forums, but I was unable to make any progress.
I hope someone here can help me.
Thank you.
