Backport for iwlwifi
I am currently new to deeper system administration with ubuntu. My new PC has compability problems with ubuntu (to be exact: the WIFI).
http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/4007/linux-wifi-driver-aorus-gaming
In this thread my problem is solved with the last post, but I don't know how to install the backported iwlwifi driver and then where to find the config.
I am using kubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Thanks for your help!
To use iwlwifi backports you could
sudo apt-get install git build-essential
git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git
cd backport-iwlwifi
make defconfig-iwlwifi-public
sed -i 's/CPTCFG_IWLMVM_VENDOR_CMDS=y/# CPTCFG_IWLMVM_VENDOR_CMDS is not set/' .config
make -j4
sudo make installdmesg | grep iwl to see if at least one version of firmware is loaded, you can find the firmware, if needed at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/
Update for January 2020 The package backport-iwlwifi-dkms is in the Bionic repos and is very similar to the above, this will automatically build new drivers when a newer kernel is installed. There is also a PPA that will have a newer version than what is in the repo, to install this do
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-hwe-team/backport-iwlwifi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install backport-iwlwifi-dkmsI solved it with upgrading to kernel 4.17.1 from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
I installed
- linux-headers-4.17.1-041701_4.17.1-041701.201806111730_all.deb
- linux-image-unsigned-4.17.1-041701-generic_4.17.1-041701.201806111730_amd64.deb
- linux-modules-4.17.1-041701-generic_4.17.1-041701.201806111730_amd64.deb
After that my WIFI-connection was successfully established and the driver works as expected.