Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83) issue

Kardell · 2016-05-14 16:26:05

Hi All,
I hope you are well.
My network controller is this one:

04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)

4.5.3.201605102138-1-grsec

lsmod | grep iwl
iwlmvm                218752  0
mac80211              489336  1 iwlmvm
iwlwifi               131973  1 iwlmvm
cfg80211              355838  3 iwlwifi,mac80211,iwlmvm
led_class               4450  3 hp_accel,iwlmvm,input_leds

As I can see from this document: http://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/www/ … -brief.pdf
it is dual band and also has Bluetooth 4.0 embedded.

To be honest with you I have transferred a hard drive from one laptop to another (exactly the same model) and I believe since then I struggle to establish wifi connection.
I have discovered that the wireless adapter inside this laptop is different - the previous laptop has Atheros.

I have looked into this topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … ith_intel/
first I could not find any iwlwifi.conf unless I have to touch it.
second the only connection I was able to establish from this NIC so far is Open not WPA2

Initially I was blaming NetworkManager, but it has nothing to do with it as Wicd is also struggling to authenticate.

I am not sure if the firmware issue of this adapter has been fixed according to the comment of the above topic.
If not I might better replacing it with something less fancy but at least working on Arch.

Please advise.

Arch Linux

#1 2016-05-14 16:26:05

Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83) issue

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