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....