I am new to Linux *using Ubuntu 14.04) and am having issues getting my wi-fi drivers to install. I found the appropriate files online and pasted them into the /lib/firmware directory as the install notes say. However, I am at a loss of words on how to load those drivers in the kernel. I've Googled and not come up with much at all. This is what the install notes say:

The iwlwifi driver will look for the file iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode using
the kernel's firmware_class infrastructure. More information can be
found under Documentation/firmware_class in kernel source. In order to
function correctly, you need to have this support enabled in your
kernel. When you configure the kernel, you can find this option in
the following location:

Device Drivers ->
Generic Driver Options ->
Userspace firmware loading support

You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support
by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel's
.config.

In addition to having the firmware_class support in your kernel, you
must also have a working udev and uevent infrastructure configured.
The steps for installing and configuring udev are very distribution
specific.

Once you have the firmware loader in place (or if you aren't sure and
you just want to try things to see if it works), you need to install
the microcode file into the appropriate location.

Where that appropriate location is depends (again) on your system
distribution. You can typically find this location by looking in the
udev scripts of your distro, the default is /lib/firmware."

How do I do this?

Thanks for your help!

Edit: I used this in hte terminal

 lspci -knn | grep Net -A2; uname -a

And I got the following information:

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1130]
05:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1576]

From uname -a

Linux jeff-ThinkPad-P50 3.19.0-69-generic #77~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 30 01:29:21 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux