Hi folks, I just thought I’d leave this here in case anyone else came asking for help with a new Tumbleweed install. I just submitted a bug report to hopefully get this corrected, as I couldn’t see where it’d been reported yet. If I’m wrong, and this has been reported, or if a workaround has been found, I’d appreciate it if someone could fill me in.
This issue may very likely effect some other cards that rely on iwlwifi, and not only the 7265.
Anyway, here’s the bug report below:
Bug 1018973](https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018973) - Intel Wireless 7265 card no longer works in Tumbleweed 2017-01-04 snapshot
During install process, Intel Wireless 7265 card is not showing as available in installer. This card is on an Intel NUC NUC5i5RYK. This card is found automatically and works fine on Leap 42.2.
When investigating issue, I stumbled across some other distributions running kernel 4.9, and they are (or were) having similar problems due to needing to incorporate newer firmware from upstream. Could this be the same issue as Tumbleweed is having?
Please see thread here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843936
Hardware report, as reported from Leap 42.2, where card is working well:
26: PCI 200.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.378]
Unique ID: y9sn.uP7SjsButCD
Parent ID: Z7uZ.6PuFFaXfV41
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:02:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265”
Vendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
Device: pci 0x095a “Wireless 7265”
SubVendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
SubDevice: pci 0x9010 “Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265”
Revision: 0x59
Driver: “iwlwifi”
Driver Modules: “iwlwifi”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN