Freshly installed Debian 8 on a Dell XPS - Developer Edition laptop, and running the 3.16.0-4 kernel since the newer one doesn't boot (dont care to fix that at the moment).sudo lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net lists the following:3a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a)        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0050]3b:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:525a] (rev 01)I downloaded the firmware (tried both iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode and iwlwifi-8000C-17.ucode) and copied it to /lib/firmware, rebooted and nothing changed.If I try to install using apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi, my USB-ethernet adapter stops working as well.Edit: Also, my driver (8000-17.ucode) isn't even listed in the firmware-iwlwifi packed here:https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-iwlwifierrors when trying make menuconfigroot@001:/linux-4.1.26#  HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.oIn file included from scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:23:0:scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:38:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory#include CURSES_LOC                   ^compilation terminated.scripts/Makefile.host:108: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/mconf.o' failedmake[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf.o] Error 1Makefile:541: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failedmake: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
Debian 8 no wlan0 on XPS-13 Intel 8260 (rev 3a)
debian;firmware;iwlwifi
According to Linux* Support for Intel Wi-Fi Adapters the Intel 8260 is only suppoted by the 4.1 Kernel version: Download and build the 4.1.26 kernel.Use the iwlwifi-8000-ucode-25.30.13.0.tgz driver