Saturday, April 8, 2017

HP Pavilion X360 Wireless Issue Solved

I have got a new HP Pavilion 13 x360 and installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I'm having issues with wireless. I've  got many solution however nothing worked for me.

One of the solution worked, so keeping it on my blog so that others can take advantage of it, here is the info of hardware as well as the solution.

Network Hardware Info:
sudo lshw -C network
description: Wireless interface
product:
Wireless 3165
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 81
serial: 84:ef:18:8b:89:1d
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.4.0-31-generic firmware=16.242414.0 ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:280 memory:b1400000-b1401fff


Issue with firmware, Need to download it from web
Please download this to your desktop

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-7265-ucode-25.17.12.0.tgz
Right-click it and select 'Extract Here.'
Now, open Terminal and guide to the extracted folder, Run below commands

cd ~/Desktop/iwlwifi-7265-ucode-25.17.12.0
sudo cp iwlwifi-7265D-12.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3165-9.ucode
sudo cp iwlwifi-7265-12.ucode  /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3165-12.ucode
After all this, just blacklist acer-wmi to ignore loading of acer-wmi and hp-wmi.
sudo -i
modprobe -r acer-wmi
echo "blacklist
acer-wmi"  >>  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit
And @ last reboot system.
I hope this will work for all