I have dell xps 13 developer edition with ubuntu 14.04. Actually when I bought the machine it came with ubuntu 12.04. Before upgrade to 14.04 the wireless driver was running perfectly. After upgrading to 14.04 the driver gets in broken mode. I can connect to saved networks but if I plan to connect to an unsaved network it does not work. When the qui gets in trouble I give a try to terminal by typing:
$ iwlist scan
The response is:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
virbr0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
lxcbr0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
My driver info:
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Wireless 7260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 6b
serial: 7c:7a:91:8c:df:fc
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.5.0-48-generic firmware=22.0.6.0 ip=192.168.2.237 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes
resources: irq:58 memory:f0400000-f0401fff
I am really in a big trouble. I can connect to any wifi network except saved wifi networks. If I can not find any solution I will downgrade to 12.04 again.
What is the proper way using this driver with 14.04?
Best Answer
After making partial upgrade with Software Updater the problems have been gone away. So this issue is fixed for me.