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I have been unable to get Debian 8 (Jessie) to install my Wifi Card (GigaByte GC-WB867D-I REV 4.2) as a network adapter. The card is reported as "Supported" by The latest release of Intel's Linux Driver (iwlwifi)
I installed iwlwifi
and updated it via apt-get to the latest version, as well as downloading and copying the supported microcode firmware binaries for the card to \lib\firmware
(not in the \intel
subfolder).
I have also installed firmware-iwlwifi and reinstalled the iwlwifi kernel module using:
modprobe -r iwlwifi ; mod probe iwlwifi
Several attempts and reboots have resulted in no success. ifconfig wlan0 up
reports no device is registered to that interface.
Meanwhile Windows 7 sees the card and installed the drivers for it (but has some technical issues with it working)
Debian is aware of the card, as it is present on PCI:
#lspci -nn | grep "8260"
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a)`
I have already followed the instructions here for installing wifi cards at the Debian Project Wiki
Wireless Chipset: Intel Wireless-AC 8260
Did you manage to solve the stability problems? I get them too with kernel 4.10, -21 firmware. – Mr.WorshipMe – 2017-07-13T20:09:25.613
Yeah, it's very stable for me now. I'm using kernel 4.9.0 and firmware 8000C-22, both are stock Debian stretch. – horgh – 2017-07-15T16:12:19.753
Sorry didn't mean to post that without saying more. When I originally debugged this I compiled and installed iwlwifi module from git and used newer firmware (from the pages I linked in my original answer as I recall). However, that didn't solve the problem. What I eventually did was replace my wifi router and that fixed everything, oddly enough. – horgh – 2017-07-15T16:15:03.397