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I installed Debian 9 stretch testing version. And I did the below:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install network-manager-gnome
# apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

My network card is Intel Corporation Wireless 8260

# lspci | grep Wireless
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)

So I come to Linux Support for Intel wireless adapter to download the Wi-Fi driver.

Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260       4.1     iwlwifi-8000-ucode-25.30.13.0.tgz

And I put the Wi-Fi driver under /lib/firmware.

But when I click Wi-Fi in the notification area, "Select network", the Wi-Fi networks pops up, "No network" message is displayed. It seems that it cannot detect the Wi-Fi.

Does anybody know the reason?

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  • Reloading the driver modprobe -r iwlwifi ; modprobe iwlwifi doesn't help?
    – GAD3R
    Commented Mar 2, 2017 at 19:04
  • Thanks GAD3R! # modprobe -r iwlwifi; modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi is in use; # modprobe iwlwifi; no return message. But when I open "Select Networks", the wifi driver cannot detect the wifi SSID.
    – Janice Lu
    Commented Mar 3, 2017 at 23:11
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    To unload/reload iwlwifi, first modprobe -r iwlmvm || modprobe -r iwldvm. Or use lsmod|grep iwlwifi, it will tell you which one of the two sub-modules is loaded & using iwlwifi, so you can unload it first.
    – sourcejedi
    Commented Mar 4, 2017 at 11:01
  • Thanks sourcejedi. I had wifi icon on my top right corner of desktop. But when I clicking Select Network, it seems that the network card cannot find the surrounding wifi SSID.
    – Janice Lu
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 2:45

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To install the wifi for the Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 , download the driver from here, extract it then copy it to your /lib/firmware:

wget https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-8000-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz
tar xvf iwlwifi-8000-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz
cd iwlwifi-8000-ucode-16.242414.0
cp iwlwifi-8000-ucode* /lib/firmware
modprobe iwlwifi
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  • Thanks GAD3R, I tried, but still cannot figure out. The wifi networks still cannot find the surrounding wifi SSID. I don't know why. Does it related to /etc/network/interfaces? I have the following interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback. I also used iwconfig, it is as below: wlp4s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode: Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry short limit: 7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off Encryption key: off Power Management: on Enp0s31f6 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions.
    – Janice Lu
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 2:38
  • GAD3R, it seems that I did not configure IP address manually. When I use "ip address show", it displays the following information: 3: wlp4s0: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 1a:15:e3:83:e7:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    – Janice Lu
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 3:01
  • Run ip link set wlp4s0 up then try to scan for the AP through iw dev wlp4s0 scan
    – GAD3R
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 10:09
  • GAD3R, I ran ip link set wlp4s0, it says RTNETLINK answers: Input/output error
    – Janice Lu
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 19:39

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