Alienware 17 R4 Ubuntu 16.04 WiFi driver

**activestealth** · March 22nd, 2018

Originally Posted by jeremy31

Do you have Windows on this still? I need the inf file for the wifi, I think it can be found in Device Manager, click the wireless adapter/properties and see if the inf is listed in the driver section
You might want to contact killersupport@rivetnetworks.com and ask about Linux support

Yes I do, but the .dat and .sys files appears to be too huge to be attached here >< I have attached a print screen of Killer-1550 details for its drivers in Windows 10.

**karrnb** · April 25th, 2018

Hi,

I had a similar problem. I'd written to Killer, and this was their response.

'Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately, there is not currently a Linux driver available for the Killer Wireless 1550. We do not currently have a timetable on when one will be developed. We apologize for the inconvenience. '

One way around this is to use ndiswrapper, but installing drivers is still difficult.

**jeremy31** · April 25th, 2018

I have been in contact with Intel on this matter and it is being worked on, for now we can use Intel backports

Code:

sudo apt-get install git build-essential
git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/
cd backport-iwlwifi
make defconfig-iwlwifi-public
sed -i 's/CPTCFG_IWLMVM_VENDOR_CMDS=y/# CPTCFG_IWLMVM_VENDOR_CMDS is not set/' .config
make -j4
sudo make install

Reboot, after a kernel update you will need to

Code:

cd backport-iwlwifi
make clean
make defconfig-iwlwifi-public
make -j4
sudo make install

Make sure Secure Boot is disabled in BIOS/UEFI

**praseodym** · January 6th, 2019

Jeremy: Will this device be supported in the near future? With which kernel? Or is it already supported?

**jeremy31** · January 6th, 2019

They were added upstream back in July, it looks like it is supported in the Ubuntu 4.18 kernels. A bug report would have to be filed to get them into 4.15

**chili555** · January 6th, 2019

Originally Posted by praseodym

Jeremy: Will this device be supported in the near future? With which kernel? Or is it already supported?

The device above is:

3d:00.0 0280: 8086:2526 (rev 29)
Subsystem: 1a56:1550

It appears to be supported in Ubuntu 18.10:

Code:

chili@T440p:~$ modinfo iwlwifi | grep 2526 | grep 1550
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002526sv*sd00001550bc*sc*i*

My kernel version is 4.18.0-13-generic.

I haven't the device, so I can't test further.

I hope someone with the device will try a live session for 18.10 and inform us.