[solved]Wifi on Sony Vaio PRo 13

[Fitz]

Hi.

My debian system does not have any wifi drivers unfortunately.

I suspect highly that the driver is not in the 3.2 kernel so ideally I'd like to update to a newer kernel..

However, the laptop doesn't have a network port and I don't have a network to usb cable.

SO in other words: Can anyone talk me through updating the kernel offline using a usb stick..

Thanks

[Fitz]

In fact I just found this post about ubuntu and installing the wifi drivers.

I'm unfortunately stuck on step 1 however as I've no idea how to do this with only my desktop computer and a usb stick to transfer stuff to my laptop. I did manage to do step 2 and 3 however. As ever I thank you for your help

The Intel wifi module 7260 is not supported by Ubuntu 13.4. Here are some steps to get it to work. You will need an supported usb wifi adapter or a second computer to download the needed data.

1.Get, compile and install latest backports (in my case: backports-3.11-rc3-1)
2. Install the very latest firmware iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode:

3. sudo cp iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode /lib/firmware/.
4. sudo modprobe iwlwifi

Connect to your wifi.

http://simon.schllng.de/2013/08/10/ubun ... 3/?lang=en

[Fitz]

After much googling I found this page which helped me install the linux kernel and header files so consider this solved as my wifi is now working

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... connection