Hi all, I just upgraded my netbook to an AC card: Intel Wireless AC7260 WiFi Card, now I can get much faster download speeds then before with the stock 802.11n card.
It works great but, my WiFi light does not come on anymore since the upgrade. I installed updates also did sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade and still the light is off.
I can try Intel directly but, not exactly sure if it will mess up my connection. :-\ I'm running LL 3.4
Please return the output of each of these commands:
Code:
lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2
Thank you. Here is the output of those commands:
Code:
root@TOSHIBA-NETBOOK:~# lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev 73)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 [8086:4070]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Code:
root@TOSHIBA-NETBOOK:~# rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Code:
root@TOSHIBA-NETBOOK:~# dmesg | grep iwl
[ 11.533835] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.459231.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[ 11.783664] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7260, REV=0x144
[ 11.783866] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 11.784196] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 12.114773] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-mvm-rs'
[ 13.655131] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0 wlp7s0: renamed from wlan0
[ 15.086110] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 15.086366] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 15.278222] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 15.278482] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
root@TOSHIBA-NETBOOK:~#
I would leave well enough alone, you have great fast speed, just no light. Many people have issues with this chipset so you are well ahead of the pack here. A newer firmware may appear later down the line in updates.
Thank you Jerry your right. I'll leave it alone it works great, I can always tell anyway if it's connected or not. I went with Intel because, most of the reviews are positive. Only spent $10.70 USD on eBay
So if anyone has a small netbook I would definitely upgrade to a SSD / 2GB RAM / and a new wireless AC card.
Thanks again.