Wireless Suddenly Dissapeared ~ Mint 17 AsusIntel iwlwifi

[biolife1212]

Working with Linux Mint 17.2 64 Bit on my Asus Laptop everything has been working well until suddenly this morning. No Wifi. Rebooted many times. Still Nothing. Upgraded the kernel (something I had to do with previous versions of mint).. No dice. My specs:

Kernel 3.19.0-26-generic
Output from inxi :

Network: Card-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A

Output from rfkill list:

0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Output from iwconfig:

eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

Output from lshw

*-network
description: Network controller
product: Wireless 7260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: cb
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=iwlwifi latency=0
resources: irq:50 memory:f7000000-f7001fff


Anyone have any ideas?

lsmod does not list iwlwifi. Running the command sudo modprobe iwlwifi does nothing.

[JeremyB]

Try

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sudo apt-get install linux-firmware

Reboot and see if if works

[biolife1212]

I'm not sure how or why, but eventually after that install and a couple of reboots, wireless was back up and running. Over the past year or so, the wireless has dropped out every once and a while (maybe 2 times) and rebooting (sometimes more than once) solves the problem. Not sure what is going on but it doesn't affect my daily life enough to worry about. Thanks!