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To enable wireless on Thinkpad t440s

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2 weeks after I bought t440s with Windows 8 bundled, I'm freaked out with it and want to replace with Precise. Using USB boot to make sure if it's run although the device looks like already certified by Canonical, Ubuntu can't find wireless device. I've found a workaround for a similar issue, I still don't know what to do.

The same URL from above says:

Network

    Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 6

    Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV Unknown

Also,

$ lsmod|grep intel

:

snd_hda_intel

kvm_intel

aesni_intel

ghash_clmuni_intel, aesni_intel

intel_ips

I'm not an expert at all with devices...I'd appreciate solution. Thanks!

Update) I'm required to use Ubuntu 12.04.

Update-2) I upgraded to 13.04, hopelessly expecting that doing so would just resolve the issue. Ended up seeing no improvement. I found the model of wireless module is Intel Wireless-N 7260 from this page.

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answered 1 Year ago percol · Accepted Answer

Answering my own question since I finally got wifi working on my t440s with Ubuntu 13.04.

I did exactly what is recommended in this answer, except that I obtained Wireless 7260 from here instead of the link in the answer that seems someone's dropbox.

Although from this website the wifi module bundled on t440s is Intel Wireless-N 7260, the driver I mentioned above, Intel Wireless 7260 (without N), seems to be working fine.

Update) After some while, wifi has been working fine with a following few tweaks:

Every time I reboot the OS, I need to run:

sudo modprobe iwlwifi

Though only occasionally, wifi device goes inactive and I have to build iwlwifi again same as in the link above:

cd Desktop/backports-3.11-rc3-1/ make defconfig-iwlwifi make sudo make install