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Due to the fact that it was recommended I upgrade my kernel to resolve wifi connectivity issues on my Macbook pro (Dual booting alongside Mac OS Sierra), I was looking to find the header file, and it shows up in none of the repos I have in sources.list.

I see linux-headers files for 3.16 and 4.8, but not 4.7. I looked through Debian's site for the amd64 package and it's there but when I click on it, it says it "doesn't exist". Keep in mind this is off the backports repo I installed the 4.7 kernel. Should I just upgrade to 4.8 and use those headers?

Wifi chipset is BCM4360

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The 4.7 kernels are no longer available in the Debian repositories (apart from snapshots), so yes, the easiest option is to upgrade to 4.8.

If you install the linux-image-amd64 and linux-headers-amd64 packages from backports you'll automatically get the latest backported kernel and matching headers:

apt-get -t jessie-backports install linux-{image,headers}-amd64

For you wi-fi chipset, enabling the non-free backports repository and then installing the broadcom-sta-dkms and firmware-brcm80211 should provide the appropriate module and firmware.

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