How to Force a Wifi Driver to Be Persistent

[Bradley Harvey]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> wrote:

> 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?
>

My Wifi consistently drops connection to the access point. I have turned
off the power save option for the device and it will enable itself then
disconnect after time. I was going to make the power save being turned off
as persistent but if it continues to come back on during use then there is
no need.

All of the drivers I see in Ubuntu are in the /lib/firmware folder. This is
also where Intel suggested the driver be placed.

I am not familiar with the firmware downloader. Is it something different
than the Additional Drivers tab within the Software Update?

Cheers
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