title: Debian 8. Failed to load iwlwifi
body: <p>I used the netdisk iso to install debian, which apperently is missing the firmware files: rtl_nic_rtl8411-2.fw and iwlwifi, so I can't get my wifi working.
  My laptop uses intel wireless-AC 8260, and I have updated my kernel to 4.8</p>
  
  <p>Dmesg output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-23.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-20.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-19.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-18.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-17.ucode (-2)
  
  firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode (-2)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>uname -a output:</p>
  
  <pre><code> Linux debian 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.8.11-1~bpo8+1 (2016-12-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm not sure if I have installed iwlwifi 8000 correctly.
  this is my /lib/firmware output.</p>
  
  <pre><code>3com                 iwlwifi-135-6.ucode      qat_c3xxx_mmp.bin
  advansys             iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode     qat_c62x.bin
  agere_ap_fw.bin          iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode     qat_c62x_mmp.bin
  agere_sta_fw.bin         iwlwifi-3160-7.ucode     qat_mmp.bin
  amdgpu               iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode     r128
  amd-ucode            iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode     radeon
  as102_data1_st.hex       iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode     rp2.fw
  as102_data2_st.hex       iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode     rt2561.bin
  av7110               iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode     rt2561s.bin
  carl9170-1.fw            iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode     rt2661.bin
  cis              iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode     rt2860.bin
  ctefx.bin            iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode     rt2870.bin
  ctspeq.bin           iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode  rt3070.bin
  cxgb3                iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode  rt3071.bin
  cxgb4                iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode  rt3090.bin
  dabusb               iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode     rt3290.bin
  dsp56k               iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode     rt73.bin
  dvb-fe-xc4000-1.4.1.fw       iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode     RTL8192E
  dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw     iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode     rtl_bt
  dvb-fe-xc5000c-4.1.30.7.fw   iwlwifi-7260-9.ucode     rtl_nic
  dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw      iwlwifi-7265-8.ucode     rtlwifi
  dvb-usb-it9135-01.fw         iwlwifi-7265-9.ucode     s2250.fw
  dvb-usb-it9135-02.fw         iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode   s2250_loader.fw
  dvb-usb-terratec-h5-drxk.fw  kaweth           tehuti
  e100                 keyspan_pda          tigon
  ene-ub6250           matrox           ueagle-atm
  f2255usb.bin             moxa             usbduxfast_firmware.bin
  go7007               mt7601u.bin          usbdux_firmware.bin
  hp               mt7650.bin           usbduxsigma_firmware.bin
  i915                 mts_cdma.fw          v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw
  intel                mts_edge.fw          v4l-cx23418-apu.fw
  intel-ucode          mts_gsm.fw           v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
  isci                 nvidia           v4l-cx23418-dig.fw
  iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode         qat_895xcc.bin       v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
  iwlwifi-100-5.ucode      qat_895xcc_mmp.bin       v4l-cx25840.fw
  iwlwifi-105-6.ucode      qat_c3xxx.bin        vntwusb.fw
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>iwconfig output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>eth0      no wireless extensions.
  
  eth1      no wireless extensions.
  
  lo        no wireless extensions.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>ifconfig output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 70:8b:cd:25:a4:e8  
            inet addr:192.168.87.107  Bcast:192.168.87.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
            inet6 addr: fe80::728b:cdff:fe25:a4e8/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:4815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:4504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
            RX bytes:2976911 (2.8 MiB)  TX bytes:949120 (926.8 KiB)
  
  eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 4a:74:6e:46:fc:a2  
            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
  
  lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
            RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
            RX bytes:4725 (4.6 KiB)  TX bytes:4725 (4.6 KiB)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have copied the non-free sources into my /etc/apt/sources.list</p>
  
  <pre><code>deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free#
  deb http://mirror.one.com/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I do apt-get iwlwifi:</p>
  
  <pre><code>firmware-iwlwifi is already the newest version.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried to get this working for 2 days now without luck, what am I missing? I'm new to Linux so I'd really appreciate an understandable answer for a beginner.    </p>