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Wifi adapter did not work in hp pavilion 15-au172tx laptop [duplicate]

By Gabriel Cooper

I have installed ubuntu 16.04 for hp pavilion 15-au172tx laptop but wifi did not work. This laptop is 7th gen and is there any problem with it? I also tried to get wifi adapter type but i can't and i also tried additional driver application to add drivers but wifi adapter is not see in that application. Please help me

Output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; uname -a

05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:24fb] (rev 10) DeviceName: Intel Dual BandWireless-AC 3168 802.11 ac 1x1 WiFi + BT 4.0 Combo Adapter Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2110]
Linux HP-Pavilion-Notebook 4.4.0-93-generic #116-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 21:17:51 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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1 Answer

Connect to internet by wire and run

sudo apt update
sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-firmware

and reboot.

This device is supported by newer kernels.

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