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| # run this to determine which firmware the kernal is looking for | |
| modinfo iwlwifi | grep iwlwifi-cc | |
| # example output: | |
| # firmware: iwlwifi-cc-a0-50.ucode | |
| # go https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ and download the firmware | |
| # copy file to /lib/firmware | |
| sudo cp ~/Download/iwlwifi-cc-a0-50.ucode /lib/firmware | |
| # reboot | |
| sudo reboot | |
| # check that firmware was loaded | |
| sudo dmesg | grep iwlwifi | grep version | |
| # example output | |
| # [ 4.566709] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: loaded firmware version 50.3e391d3e.0 op_mode iwlmvm |
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I only run Ubuntu on my Asus laptop, so if anyone sees this, just turning the Wi-Fi adapter off ("Lock") in the BIOS, booting to Linux, then re-enabling it in the BIOS again ("Unlock"), worked for me, no Windows required.