Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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Currently in LM 17 I have to do this on both my devices with these wireless cards to get wireless to work (with the 3.13 kernel sources) : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st13112184

Will it work natively in LM 17.1 ?

Thanks.
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Re: Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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kevinlekiller wrote:Currently in LM 17 I have to do this on both my devices with these wireless cards to get wireless to work (with the 3.13 kernel sources) : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st13112184

Will it work natively in LM 17.1 ?

Thanks.
The rev cb card in that post is supported with kernel 3.13.0-40 and might be in -39
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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Hi JeremyB, thanks for the reply.

On the blog, every post I read about 3.13.0-40 and 3.13.0-39 people had issues, LM 17.1 ships with 3.13.0-37 from what I can see, guess I'll have to keep modifying the driver :(
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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kevinlekiller wrote:Hi JeremyB, thanks for the reply.

On the blog, every post I read about 3.13.0-40 and 3.13.0-39 people had issues, LM 17.1 ships with 3.13.0-37 from what I can see, guess I'll have to keep modifying the driver :(
Do you have linux installed now? Enter this in terminal and post results

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lspci -nnk | grep -A2 net
This is some info from my terminal showing the kernel I have and alias info from the driver that the 7260 uses, I think Chili555 found that support was added to 3.18 kernel and it appears Ubuntu added the patch to 3.13.0-40

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 uname -a
Linux jeremy-Satellite-M645 3.13.0-40-generic #69-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 13 17:53:56 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jeremy@jeremy-Satellite-M645 ~ $ modinfo iwlwifi | grep 4C70
alias:          pci:v00008086d000008B1sv*sd00004C70bc*sc*i*
And the lspci info from the post on ubuntuforums was

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02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev cb)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4c70]
Looks like a match to me, the vendor, device, and sub device ID's are the same
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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Hi JeremyB, I won't be able to test your commands until Wednesday, thank for the help/support, I'll let you know then.
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

Post by kevinlekiller »

Hello JeremyB, had time to test out today on 17.1 with the 3.13.0-40 kernel, didn't have to do anything, worked straight away.

Even 3.13.0-37 worked right away, however I seem to be getting slightly better speeds on 3.13.0-40

Thanks for the help!
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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kevinlekiller wrote:Hello JeremyB, had time to test out today on 17.1 with the 3.13.0-40 kernel, didn't have to do anything, worked straight away.

Even 3.13.0-37 worked right away, however I seem to be getting slightly better speeds on 3.13.0-40

Thanks for the help!
Nice to hear that it worked, so what is the version of your card

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA2
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

Post by kevinlekiller »

Hi JeremyB, here's an output of the lspci: http://i.imgur.com/ICVltr0.jpg

Here's a picture of the module, if it helps anyone in the future: http://i.imgur.com/bTLHNQu.jpg
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Re: Will Linux Mint 17.1 support the Intel 7260HMW AC?

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kevinlekiller wrote:Hi JeremyB, here's an output of the lspci: http://i.imgur.com/ICVltr0.jpg

Here's a picture of the module, if it helps anyone in the future: http://i.imgur.com/bTLHNQu.jpg
That is the same card I put in my other Toshiba, worked right out of the box with LM17 and the 3.13.0-24 kernel
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