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Using Intel's 7260 Wifi on Ubuntu 13.10 - March 4th, 2014
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Using Intel's 7260 Wifi on Ubuntu 13.10

Keywords: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 7260, Dell Inspiron 15 Series 7000.

Steps to great wifi performance,

Upgrade to Kernel 3.13.x

http://www.yourownlinux.com/2014/02/install-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-3-13-5-in-linux.html

Download latest microcode

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi

Diagnosis

$ uname -a
Linux a1u3 3.13.5-031305-generic #201402221823 SMP Sat Feb 22 23:24:30 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dmesg | grep iwlwifi
[    2.319397] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: irq 62 for MSI/MSI-X
[    2.329398] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.24.8.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[    2.372878] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wireless N 7260, REV=0x144
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