I am trying to upgrade the wireless card in my Toshiba Portege from an Intel Centrino N2230 to an Intel 7260 card, but currently it is not working. My OS version is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and here are some further details:
uname -a
Linux portege-R935 3.13.0-79-generic #123-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 19 14:27:58 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lshw
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless 7260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlan1
version: 73
serial: 7c:5c:f8:8f:77:cb
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.13.0-79-generic firmware=22.24.8.0 ip=192.168.0.187 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
resources: irq:44 memory:e2400000-e2401fff
ifconfig
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7c:5c:f8:8f:77:cb
inet addr:192.168.0.187 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7e5c:f8ff:fe8f:77cb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1066 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:112810 (112.8 KB) TX bytes:94922 (94.9 KB)
I have so far attempted to download, extract, and copy the firmware into /lib/firmware as described in the last solution to this post: No wireless for Intel Corporation 7260 version 63
Edit: log output from dmesg | grep iwl
[ 1.956246] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2.063946] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.24.8.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[ 2.095594] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7260, REV=0x144
[ 2.095702] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 2.102396] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 2.303181] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-mvm-rs'
[ 4.013116] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 4.013442] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 8.212226] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[ 8.413151] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.
[ 8.413485] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 8.413929] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 8.520370] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 8.520739] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 11.570269] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[ 13.174563] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.
[ 13.176011] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 13.176577] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 45.630564] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Time Event end notification failure
[ 133.945920] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform
[ 136.339636] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.
[ 137.741875] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 137.748602] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled