kali-newb
2015-12-05, 21:00
I just installed Kali Linux 2.0 64 bit on my Lenovo X1 Carbon 2nd Gen. During installation I got the following error meesage:
Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy.
This missing firmware files are: iwlwifi-7260-12.ucode wlwifi-7260-11.ucode
If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue.
I didn't have the firmware files so continued. Installation seemed to go okay, and my WiFi card was still detected and seemed to work perfectly. After installation I did
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The kernel is 4.0.0-kali1-amd64
After doing
aptitude show firmware-iwlwifi
I can see that iwlwifi-7260-[7-10].ucode are installed, but not [11-12] that were mentioned during install.
Now my questions:
Do I need to install the two firmwares listed?
If so, where do I find them?
I've checked Debian's website and they only go up to iwlwifi-7260-9.ucode (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-iwlwifi).
I've checked kernel.org (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi) and the file names don't correspond to the ones in the error message.
I tried "aptitude install firware-iwlwifi" and got "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
Normally I wouldn't care too much so long as the hardware is working, but I've been having issues with using aircrack-ng and I'm wondering if it's driver related.
Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy.
This missing firmware files are: iwlwifi-7260-12.ucode wlwifi-7260-11.ucode
If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue.
I didn't have the firmware files so continued. Installation seemed to go okay, and my WiFi card was still detected and seemed to work perfectly. After installation I did
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The kernel is 4.0.0-kali1-amd64
After doing
aptitude show firmware-iwlwifi
I can see that iwlwifi-7260-[7-10].ucode are installed, but not [11-12] that were mentioned during install.
Now my questions:
Do I need to install the two firmwares listed?
If so, where do I find them?
I've checked Debian's website and they only go up to iwlwifi-7260-9.ucode (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-iwlwifi).
I've checked kernel.org (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi) and the file names don't correspond to the ones in the error message.
I tried "aptitude install firware-iwlwifi" and got "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
Normally I wouldn't care too much so long as the hardware is working, but I've been having issues with using aircrack-ng and I'm wondering if it's driver related.