Having trouble with the Intel 7260 Wireless/BT

[theFOoL]

Hello guy's,

OK so long story short I had have this card before but stupidity of me didn't take the antennas out which yes bent the left one so that pcie card was useless but my bud bought another but the card sees BT in windows but no Wi-Fi. I booted into Linux MINT and both worked fine. I installed driver booster and it listed the device as faulty lol. So what gives? Yes I uninstall and this/that

 

[Edwired]

Is the wifi card on a motherboard or laptop by any chance. Sometime the driver booster gets the driver for the same model but not the original one from the manufacturer site. Try getting it from Intel website.
Possible causes for it to failing to work or not seeing wifi around you it can be as simple as a wifi switch on the laptop could be turned off or a corrupted driver.

 

[theFOoL]

I didn't use driver booster I know better. I use 3Dp but seeing this being used as a Desktop Wi-Fi but it worked perfectly fine before *It's on a PCI-E mSata

 

[Edwired]

I didn't use driver booster I know better. I use 3Dp but seeing this being used as a Desktop Wi-Fi but it worked perfectly fine before

What operating system are you using and is it a PC or laptop

 

[1freedude]

I've had that happen with wired NICs. Windows being dumb, I had to use a usb rj45 in windows, but a real install of Mint was happily fine with MB nic that windows didnt even detect. Eventually, didnt care, as i stuck to the Mint install.

 

[theFOoL]

What operating system are you using and is it a PC or laptop

My PC in sig ofc. LTSC/11

 

[Edwired]

My PC in sig ofc. LTSC/11

Is it Asus or asrock

 

[theFOoL]

Is it Asus or asrock

My ASUS P5Q-EM

 

[Edwired]

Ah right I think it to do with the compatibility issue with windows 11 and certain driver for that motherboard. Try this driver it windows 10 64bits if you are using windows 11 bits it should work

Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® Driver for Windows® 10 64-bit for DN2820FY

Installs the Intel® PROSet/Wireless Software for Bluetooth® technology driver for Intel® NUC DN2820FY using Windows® 10.

www.intel.com

 

[theFOoL]

All drivers are pretty much the same. That's just BT not wireless. BT works fine

 

[Edwired]

All drivers are pretty much the same. That's just BT not wireless. BT works fine

No internet access with Intel 7260 wifi card - Windows 7 Help Forums

Greetings. Picked up an unbranded intel 7260 pcie express card to be used with i7 6600u machine. Need help with getting internet access using the ac wifi 5Ghz band. The specs says 867mbps ac wifi with

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It apparently something to do with reinstalling drivers and putting tape on a certain pin to enable wifi might be something that is fixable.
Is the wifi card on a pcie adaptor or can you show a picture of it

Taped pin # 20 and pin # 51 on the Intel 7260 AC Wifi card, and reinstalled in system. The wireless and bluetooth functionality is now recognized.

Used the diagram below to locate corresponding pins on the Wifi card. Hope this helps someone..

 

[theFOoL]

Here




Why fail

 

[Edwired]

Here

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Ah I see it now it a laptop wifi/bt card converted to pcie adaptor for desktop. Yeah looks like you might to try the tape method to cover pin 21 and test it to see if it comes up on wifi

Here more info

This one enabled bluetooth/wifi which it shows how to do this by using tape method so yeah it need pin 20 and 51 to be covered to enable wifi. Might be trial and error to get it right

That the reason why it failed to install in the first place due to the wifi is not enabled

 

[theFOoL]

It just kills me that I have to do this just to get the wifi working where Linux sees it just fine. I already ordered a different card but this is msata and not M.2