How to Install Intel Dual Band AC 7260 Wireless Driver???- Plzz

[trendse77er]

Hi Guys!! I am a Newbie for Kali Linux. I have installed Kali Linux latest version on HDD, whose kernel is 4.6. But i just couldnt get my Intel wireless driver to work... i have tried going around google and all other forums, but i couldnt really find a precise solution or a guidance. I am a total noob in kali linux. I have tried downloading the iwlwifi-7260-14.ucode and I tried placing it in lib/firmware... i aint sure how to load it to make it work... i have literally tried every other solution in other forums, but i dont really get a precise hang of what exactly am i supposed to do... am i supposed to downgrade my kernel to 4.2 as the intel site says firmware is for 4.2., but i have no idea how am i supposed to do that....
So, i just formatted my whole linux and reinstalled a fresh new version and waiting for someone to shed some light on it to help my driver work.. right from the scratch.. a detailed guidance for a novice would really be helpful...
frustrated, very much frustrated in figuring this out....
thanks a lot in advance... and I really appreciate the concern....

I have posted the reports as below::

lspci
Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev c3)

dmesg | grep firmware
[ 2.738748] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode
[ 2.738985] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.352738.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[ 2.988678] bluetooth hci0: firmware: direct-loading firmware intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.1.2d.d.bseq
[ 2.988682] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware file: intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.1.2d.d.bseq
[ 3.167208] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware patch completed and activated

dmesg | tail
[ 55.071750] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: resuming kernel object tree...
[ 55.175146] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: HUB0: 10ecc0 ffffffff (1e40822c)
[ 55.224128] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: resuming client object trees...
[ 60.815374] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20160108/nsarguments-95)
[ 60.815637] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM
[ 60.815649] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20160108/nsarguments-95)
[ 60.816046] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: evicting buffers...
[ 60.816052] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: waiting for kernel channels to go idle...
[ 60.816077] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending client object trees...
[ 60.819126] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending kernel object tree...

thats my kernel version

root@SanLo:~# uname -r
4.6.0-kali1-amd64

Thanks a lot once again for helping me out....

[Mister_X]

Have you tried updating your system? 4.6 is pretty old.

Just FYI, the firmware you used seems older than what it is loading as you can see on your first dmesg screen (second one is not useful, it's the display driver stuff and ACPI).

Do you have a network interface? If not, show 'dmesg | grep iwlwifi' (but update first then reboot).

[_defalt]

Show the output of rfkill list all

[trendse77er]

Have you tried updating your system? 4.6 is pretty old.

Just FYI, the firmware you used seems older than what it is loading as you can see on your first dmesg screen (second one is not useful, it's the display driver stuff and ACPI).

Do you have a network interface? If not, show 'dmesg | grep iwlwifi' (but update first then reboot).

Hello Mister_X, thanks for the headsup... maybe i guess i need to connect to ethernet and try updating my system....

but the results of dmesg | grep iwlwifi are

dmesg | grep iwlwifi
[ 2.578461] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: Unsupported splx structure
[ 2.587801] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode
[ 2.588089] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.352738.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[ 2.617916] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7260, REV=0x144
[ 2.617988] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[ 2.618236] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[ 35.030730] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[ 35.030996] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[ 35.237223] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[ 35.237490] iwlwifi 0000:09:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled



and by updating u mean to run the following command right? "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade"..
thanks

[trendse77er]

Show the output of rfkill list all

This is the result Mr. Defalt

rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

thanks

[_defalt]

Copy-paste the following command into the Terminal and then press ENTER:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

ADD the following configuration line into the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist acer_wmi


SAVE the change to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file.

Then REBOOT.

[trendse77er]

Copy-paste the following command into the Terminal and then press ENTER:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

ADD the following configuration line into the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist acer_wmi


SAVE the change to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file.

Then REBOOT.

wooh!!!! seriously!!! that worked!!! i really cant believe this for a moment... i was stuck in an endless loop for a week to make it work and finally this did it.....thanks a lot Mr. Defalt.... u just made my day.... i really appreciate ur time and help.... will return back if anything goes wrong... but it works like a charm so far.... kudos