[SOLVED] Installing firmware for Intel Wireless 7260

[ribault]

I am trying to find a driver for an Intel Corporation Wireless 7260, in order to get wifi working on a laptop W550SU1. Apparently the needed firmware is called iwm. I found a file at http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/snapshots/ . After unzipping the .tgz I got a file called iwm-7260-17.

However, dpkg complains as follows:

sudo dpkg -i iwm-7260-17
dpkg-deb: error: 'iwm-7260-17' is not a Debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive iwm-7260-17 (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
iwm-7260-17

Is this the right file? How can it be installed?

[arochester]

As Root, sudo if you have it.

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apt install firmware-iwlwifi

and Reboot

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Apparently the needed firmware is called iwm

No, that's the OpenBSD firmware for the iwm(4) driver.

[ribault]

Thank you @arochester, this works.

[stevepusser]

For beginners stumbling upon this thread, the nonfree section of the repo also must be enabled, as shown in the Debian wiki entry on firmware. Go there first for answers instead of getting random and often wrong answers from search engines.