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ZelteHonor

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Registered: 2015-01-17

Posts: 1

Wifi connection problem (Intel corporation Wireless 3160)

Hi! First sorry for my english but I am a French student. So my problem is that my wifi signal is weaker on Linux than on Windows. But really weaker. Where I am now my signal on Windows is pretty weak (the router is pretty far and I can't make any modification to it) so on Linux there is no signal at all. My driver is iwlwifi. Can you please help me?

I am not sure what information you need so I will give you as soon as I see it.

Last edited by ZelteHonor (2015-01-17 19:44:24)

tunneln

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Registered: 2014-01-21

Posts: 2

Re: Wifi connection problem (Intel corporation Wireless 3160)

I'm having this exact same issue with the same driver. Any advice/help would be appreciated.

brix

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Registered: 2014-05-26

Posts: 69

Re: Wifi connection problem (Intel corporation Wireless 3160)

Evidently the latest linux-firmware update (to 20141201.38e5405-1) contained a few munged Intel items which have now been set right:

author	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>	2014-12-11 15:43:54 (GMT)
committer	Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>	2014-12-25 16:58:54 (GMT)
[...]
iwlwifi: update -10.ucode for 3160 / 7260 / 7265 / 7265D
This fixes issues that were seen in -10.ucode for the devices listed above.

So you might try replacing your /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-10.ucode with the latest version from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri … i#Firmware

Seems to have worked for my Intel Wireless 7260.

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