How to Force a Wifi Driver to Be Persistent

[Peter Silva]

The driver loads the firmware.   They are not the same thing (firmware runs
in the wifi card, the driver runs on the computer to talk to the wifi card,
on booth the driver talks to the wifi card, and gives it it's firmware to
run.)
Normally ubuntu has a firmware downloader that will get the current version
from intel.  You should not need to do any of that.

Might be better to start from the beginning:  What is wrong, what are you
trying to fix?


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Bradley Harvey <inflatus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Running 16.04 and have an Intel WiFi card.
>
> Right now it loads the Generic Intel driver that comes with the OS.
>
> I have downloaded the latest driver for my card from Intel and extracted
> it to /lib/firmware
>
> How do I force Ubuntu to load the driver?
>
> It does not show in the Additional Drivers section of the Software Update.
>
> Cheers
>
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