Wifi Adapter not detected / Wifi not working

[sidewayset]

Hey guys,

I just went through a cumbersome process of installing and configuring Kali on my laptop. I got everything running but the Wifi. Below are some details on my system, I am clueless as to what to try next.

My

Output of lspci (network part)

44:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
45:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 (rev 29)

Followed the guide here to copy firmware for 9260 :https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/...rivers/iwlwifi
It is in my /lib/firmware directory

If I modprob iwlwifi and then run dmsg here is last of the output

Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation

Output of iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Running rfkill list is not even detecting it, just showing bluetooth which is unblocked

In GUI: Wifi adapter not connected/found

Kernel: 4.16.0-kali2-amd64

UPDATE:

Running lshw -C network it shows

 *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:45:00.0
       version: 29
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:9db00000-9db03fff

Thanks Guys,

Let me know if you need more info.

[Mister_X]

Firmware should usually be coming from a package, not downloaded directly. What version of the firmware?

See https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Intel_Dual...9260_(9260NGW)

What is the output of lspci -nn for that intel adapter?