Wireless delay Intel Corporation Wireless 7260

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Hello.
After my laptop boots, it takes around 5 minutes for WiFi networks to be detected and then finally connects to the known/saved network.

I was told on irc, a different channel than calculate-linux’s, i have the “user helper” enabled for firmware loads (it’s a kernel config option) and udev no longer has this feature, so calls to this helper just hang for 60 seconds each… so instead of trying all the 5 different firmwares in about a quarter second, it takes… 5+ minutes.

I installed CLD 15.12 this morning and did the cl-update and reach this stage.
Please assist and unfortunately I have no kernel compiling experience

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https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
Intel® Wireless 7260
last stage CLD is 4.3+ - iwlwifi-7260-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz

try.

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Thanks Alexander Medvedovsky
I’ll try that and report back in a couple of hours.

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Alexander Medvedovsky wrote:

en:users:drivers:iwlwifi [Linux Wireless]
Intel® Wireless 7260
last stage CLD is 4.3+ - iwlwifi-7260-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz

try.

Hi Alexander
I copied the ucode file to /lib/firmware/
How do I make it so that it gets loaded on boot?
Sorry I don’t know much anything the kernels

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try it

dracut --install /lib64/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode --force
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This appears to have done it and working well!
I’m roaming to a few different locations in the next couple of days, will report if something goes wrong.
Thanks.