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
After a reboot checkdmesg | 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
RebootI solved it with upgrading to kernel 4.17.1 from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
I installed
After that my WIFI-connection was successfully established and the driver works as expected.
Typing sudo apt install backport-iwlwifi-dkms on terminal resolved the issue.
Note: as of Linux 5, backporting iwlwifi is not necessary and may actually break network adapters, both the Intel one and others, due to a conflict with versions of dependency kernel modules such as
mac80211.ko
and others. (Tested on Debian 10)